After all, televisions already link up to computers, which run audio, video, modem, and facsimile programs, he says. Akers does not believe those things will happen until software incompatibility issues get addressed. Otherwise, he says, it would be like expecting personal computer users to toss out all of their hardware and software to upgrade to the next version. John Craft views the situation from a user's perspective. We're always talking about making people computer literate.
Some computers are even voice controlled.
And, for that matter, I don't want to have to read the screen. I'd like the data transmitted to my brain electronically. The ASU researcher says such complex convergence functions are likely more than a few years away. In fact, the more we learn about the brain, the more we realize just how much we've underestimated how it works and what it does. For example, the brain is constantly processing simultaneous data from all five senses.