This article on independent.co.uk is about a Japanese initiative to develop head-sets with sensors which can detect certain kinds of brain activity, allowing devices to be controlled by brain activity.
According to the article, the Nikkei daily has reported that the Japanese government plans to have mind-machine interface devices, co-developed with a consortium of Japanese companies, available within a decade.
New technology like this can provide a variety of story options for cinema and fiction. For example, a character could learn through familiarity with such devices and how they work that intricate details that the character thought they knew about supposed mechanical processes of the mind and how people relate to one another is just unfounded speculation.
Periodical cicadas in the eastern United States emerge from the ground
every 13 or 17 years — both prime numbers, not by coincidence — because
their long, indivisible cycles make it nearly impossible for any predator
with a shorter life cycle to evolve to feed on them, in one of the most
mathematically elegant defenses in the natural world
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In the spring of 2024, two enormous populations of periodical cicadas
emerged simultaneously from the soil across the eastern and midwestern
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