Summary: Scientists have created a basic form of mind control to play a video game. Of course, this wasn't the sole intent of the technology. It is simply a good way to prove that it works. Scientist One can see the screen and knows when the space bar should be hit. Scientist One's brain signal is transmitted to a second Scientist who actually hits the space bar from another room.
While this is incredibly simplistic, the scientists call it a 'proof of concept' that can pave the way for more exciting mind-control.
While legitimate mind-control and human puppeteering is not what they have in mind, their intended goals are equally cool. They have imagined that this technology could be used similar to Spock to share ideas almost instantaneously. This may also be helpful when communicating with scientists who speak a different language than you.
This is not expected to become reality for at least another 40 years, but until then we can only wait and hope.
What would you do if you could mind-meld with someone else?
BBC
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