2006jul23. CNN: Brain-powered computation. As usual, CNN gives the plum tech writing assignments to the janitor:
Already, the Brown researchers say, this kind of technology can enable a hooked-up human to write at 15 words a minute – half as fast as the average person writes by hand. Remember, though, that silicon-based technology typically doubles in capacity every two years.
So if improved hardware is all it takes to speed up the device, Cyberkinetics’ chip could be able to process thoughts as fast as speech – 110 to 170 words per minute – by 2012. Imagine issuing commands to a computer as quickly as you could talk.
“Remember, though, that capacity doubles every two years, so I’m going to pretend that has significant bearing on the speed of the device and I’m going to double the speed six times, so I can write my visionary last sentence. Imagine.”