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28/03/2019
The teenager able to connect her brain to a computer
In his delicious novel Matilda, Roald Dalh launched a song of love to the infinite curiosity that everyone, this is the secret, we have in childhood. And he pointed with his always accurate and ironic darts to the adults that we cut off those cravings for knowledge until we get the children to resemble us. That is, stop inventing, creating, wondering about what surrounds them and become flat and conformist beings. In her story Dalh endows Matilde with extraordinary powers, such as moving objects with her mind, with which she punishes the mediocre adults around her. His is a vindictive telekinesis and guasona. However, moving objects with the mind - an old esoteric aspiration and the terrain of science fiction when the book was published in 1988 - is today (almost) a reality. And one of the people who is betting the most to be a tangible technology does not have many more years than Matilda herself. At 16, Ananya Chadha describes herself on her website as "a Toronto girl who believes that the only way to create the best future for humanity is to increase our intelligence. That's why I'm so interested and involved in the field of brain-computer interfaces. "
The description of Chadha fits roughly with that of the teenager she is, because at her age it is supposed to be the hormones that take over the operations, throwing anything that interferes with having an Instagram account with the as many followers as possible. But obviously, she is not a normal girl, as evidenced by her being an expert in Blockchain technology or collaborating regularly with companies like Microsoft. One of the areas that most interests him is precisely the possibility of controlling objects-robots or computers-with our brain: "the problem we find is that the hardware we have is really bad, so it's hard to get good brain waves" . Chadha works with interfaces designed by herself that connects through electrodes to her brain to move small robots. The reason why he has chosen a technology that promises to be disruptive, is that it is a field of enormous possibilities of development during, perhaps, a couple of decades "and I have the whole future ahead". Chadha believes that his research can have a great impact in the field of health, hence his latest inventions are directed towards the construction of prostheses that, connected to the brain, allow the patient to move the arm as if it were his own limb.
This possibility of communicating with machines (and even between us) directly through the brain, also opens the door to the possibility of someone hacking the thoughts or information of another person. So Chadha, instead of wondering how most of her contemporaries do for which the next series that will triumph in Nettflix, or if Nicky Minaj will turn her career around, questions the possibility that someone will control our emotions at through technology. And, what is more important, if all these vertiginous advances make us happier. But, as extraordinary as her abilities are, Ananya Chadha is a teenager who identifies with her generation and believes that young people, thanks to the free access to information provided by the Internet and the possibility of connecting with millions of people, are more than Never prepared to change the world.
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