Gabe Newell says games will soon use your brain like a hard drive
Yes, it’s April 1, but no, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Did you think it was? Maybe that does make this an April Fool’s joke in its own way, then. Regardless, the point is: this is true. Gabe Newell, co-founder and CEO of Valve, the big daddy of PC gaming himself, recently hinted at the likelihood of some “terrifying” announcements regarding computer games… and our brains.
In an interview in Edge #344, Gabe says the thing he’s “always thinking about and working on, separate from being pulled by teams into something that they’d like my help on, is brain-computer interfaces”. He says he thinks these brain-computer interfaces are “coming way faster than people realise” and "there'll be some really interesting announcements that happen this year".
Brain-computer interfaces create a direct pathway between your brain and an external device. This is most commonly done through Electroencephalography (EEG), a method of recording brain activity via electrodes on the scalp. Real Minority Report submerge tank stuff, in other words. By doing this, the idea is that you can directly control an external device by thought alone (or, rather, by brain activity – but ‘by thought’ sounds cooler).
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