在《隐藏力量》第80集中，主持人Demetri Kofinas与CTRL-labs的CEO Thomas Reardon对话，探讨了他们在神经接口设计、计算神经科学和机器学习方面的突破性创新，这些创新正将科幻变成现实。Reardon的职业生涯同样令人印象深刻，他是万维网联盟的创始董事会成员，并以在微软创建Internet Explorer而闻名，该浏览器曾占所有网络浏览器的96%。离开微软后，Reardon重返校园，在哥伦比亚大学获得古典文学本科学位，并精通拉丁语和希腊语，随后在哥伦比亚和杜克大学攻读神经科学博士学位。

🧠 CTRL-labs的技术创新难以用言语描述，只有亲眼目睹才能感受到其震撼。例如，无需动手就能在屏幕上打字，仅凭意念就能在三维空间中精确控制物体，或者在不动的视觉状态下玩视频游戏。

💡 该公司专注于将大脑命令的最终神经元输出，通过直接发送到我们肌肉的电子脉冲进行转换，创造了一种可以通过简单的臂带非侵入性地捕捉大脑意图的设备，这种设备就像衣服、手表或精致的手镯一样佩戴。

🌐 这项技术不仅打开了沉浸式计算的新世界，而且将昨日的未来变成了今日的现实，极大地扩展了我们的可能性，超出了我们最狂野的想象。

In Episode 80 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with CTRL-labs CEO Thomas Reardon, about his company’s ground-breaking innovations in neural interface design, computational neuroscience, and machine learning that turn science fiction into reality.

Thomas Reardon’s career is no less impressive than his most recent endeavor to displace the graphical user interface and revolutionize immersive computing. He is a founding Board Member of the World Wide Web Consortium and famous for having created Internet Explorer at Microsoft, which, at its peak, represented 96% of all web browsers in existence. Over one billion people on earth have used Reardon’s software to access the Web. After leaving Microsoft, Reardon decided to go back to school, receiving his undergraduate degree in Classics from Columbia, gaining fluency in Latin and Greek. He followed that up with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience split between Columbia and Duke.    

It’s hard to capture the paradigmatic nature of the innovations stemming from the work being done at CTRL-labs without seeing it for yourself. Anything that I can say is insufficient to capture the awe of watching someone type on a screen without moving his fingers, use her intentions to pick up and finely control objects in three-dimensional space or play a video game while remaining visually motionless. The implications of this technology are perhaps, rivaled only by the practical genius of its implementation. By focusing their attention on translating only the final, neuronal output of our brain’s commands as expressed through electrical impulses sent directly to our muscles, the team at CTRL-labs has managed to create a device that can capture the brain’s intentions non-invasively, through the use of a simple armband that you can wear like an article of clothing, a wristwatch, or a fancy bracelet. It’s not an exaggeration to say that this technology turns yesterday’s future into today’s reality, blowing wide-open the world of immersive computing and expanding our sense of possibility beyond our wildest imagination.

Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas

Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou

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