[MURG] new Road Map draft

[king-yin yan]

Firstly, some corrections:

Cortical neurons should be ~27 microns apart on
average, not 35 (miscalculation). This is a rough
figure anyways. Also, memory extraction should
require cell-type identification. There are other
assumptions to it as well. All files have been
updated.

From: Ed Minchau <spider_boris at yahoo.com>
>Consider that a new laptop computer of today is as
>powerful as all of NASA's computer hardware, taken
>together, circa 1969.  There are also parallel
>advances in other related fields: nanotechnology,
>mesoscale physics, materials science, artificial
>intelligence, genetics, molecular simulation, and so
>on.  

For those who want to be among the first uploaded,
they'll have to accept a fridge-size if not room-size
computer...

>Is the best brain-computer interface microthin
>Teflon-coated stainless steel probes poking through
>the skull?  Can an equivalent be made using Carbon
>nanotubes instead?  That way instead of a 75 [...]

I don't think any current probe is poking through the
skull =)  Also, the current that a carbon nanotube
can carry is measured with electron volts. This is
MANY orders of magnitude smaller than neural signals.
Thirdly we need to insulate the length of the probe
from base to tip. Forthly we need to interface many
brain areas simultaneously. Given these, the BCI
problem is actually quite hard.

YKY


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