Human memory is something that until now no one has actually managed to copy, or at least it has not been publicly confirmed that memories from the brain can be transferred to a physical medium, but this is changing. According to some American researchers, in about 10 years the first implants that will allow memory stimulation should appear on the market, and in about 20 years we should be able to actually download our memories into physical storage media.
Researchers say that initially implants of this kind will be able to modify or intensify the memories we have, so those fractions of a second in which you remember something, could turn into a much more complete memory. We all know that people exploit an extremely small percentage of the real potential of the brain, and this kind of implants can allow access to memories that would not normally be accessible due to the limitations of the human body.
All Your Memories can be DOWNLOADED from the Brain
Downloading memories to physical storage media also comes with problems, and this is because the data taken from our brains can be accessed by hackers if they are not properly protected. The researchers collaborated with Kaspersky to analyze the vulnerabilities that arise when people's memories are downloaded to an external storage medium, and unfortunately at the moment there are many ways in which the data can be intercepted in transfer, or stolen after transfer.
"Memory implants are a real and exciting prospect, offering significant healthcare benefits," says Laurie Pycroft, doctoral researcher in the University of Oxford Functional Neurosurgery Group. "The prospect of being able to alter and enhance our memories with electrodes may sound like fiction, but it is based on solid science, the foundations of which already exist today. Memory prostheses are only a matter of time. Collaborating to understand and address emerging risks and vulnerabilities, and doing so while this technology is still relatively new, will pay off in the future."
Considering that the stimulation of the brain with physical implants, and the transfer of data from the brain to physical storage devices will become a reality in the coming years, it will be interesting to see what kind of protection measures will be offered. To be completely honest, we should have expected that at some point technologies would appear that would allow easier control of the brain, or even the downloading of memories from memory, but we should also expect the problems behind these technologies.
