Next Up: Remote Controlled Brain Communication?

Scientists have succeeded in controlling the wing movement of fruit flies using a form of brain control, and humans may be the next targets of this mind control experiment.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• DARPA is funding a project to develop a headset that can read your brain’s neural activity and “write,” or encode, it to someone else’s brain, leading to brain-to-brain communication

• At least one researcher — Jacob Robinson — working on the program, known as Magnetic, Optical, Acoustic Neural Access (MOANA), is part of a team that figure…