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Sci-fi imagines how good brain-machine interfaces will amplify bad choices



A futurist woman wears a brain-machine interface and controls multiple robots
A woman wearing a brain-machine interface controls multiple robots

Max Barry’s 2011 novel Machine Man illustrates real challenges in prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces while delightfully subverting all the scifi tropes and every standard of ethical biomedical research. 


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