#2 Technology

"It has become appalling obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein
Technology continues to make extraordinary breakthroughs. A computer system that can play music with just brain power is one of the recent experiments that's extremely close to be proven useful. I came accross this information while searching through the internet. The Article "Thought-provoking technology makes music with mind power by Matthew Knight for CNN instantly caught my attention. The fact that scientists and researchers are able to create such technology is unbelievably remarkable. The researchers are creating this unique brain computer music interface, what they call BCMI, to help people suffering from physical dissabilities. The computer system responds to electric impulses given off from the brain by creating music. The BCMI started off as music project but turned to a scientific project. The computer system is hoped to help out people with any type of disability. After years of researching the scientists found out that music can help regulate the body and improve cognitive ability. However, the performance for the BCMI is on at 60-70% when it needs to be at 80-90% to actually be considered useful.
After reading all the information included in the article I was completely astonished. Personally, I love music. To find out that music can help with all of these different things amazes me. However, I also question the advances in our technology. Technology is advancing so rapidly how is humanity going to keep up with the continuous changes. However, I will still support the changes considering we cannot stop them. I just hope that with all these technological changes within the world humanity will still remember how we once did things without technology.