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A radio link would simplify this enormously. You could link nerves "wirelessly"from a leg to near the brain without any surgery in between.

I don't see why it's fundamentally impossible?



"Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface" (2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5 :

> To establish this digital bridge, we integrated two fully implanted systems that enable recording of cortical activity and stimulation of the lumbosacral spinal cord wirelessly and in real time (Fig. 1a).


I'm not sure it'd be a brilliant idea from an infosec point-of-view - the links themselves would need to be hardened in such way interfering with them would be impossible, or someone would be able to just blast the proper messages to the receivers to take over someone's body.

In fact, the conductor was half-joking. I'd probably go for fiber, even if it adds latency at the endpoints.


Radio would be awesome because you don't have to force some cable through half the body, which must be real major surgery.

Some pretty basic encryption scheme should handle infosec angle.


After pressing the button on the microwave you'd be frozen until the machine beeped.

Unless you had a tinfoil hat (well, suit).


Typically, you close the microwave door before starting it.


Just remember to close it from the outside!




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