Dec 27 2005
Euphoria by push button
DamnInteresting: a way to achieve the same “high” sensation as one can get from illegal
drugs, anytime, anywhere, and without the chemical side effects and
criminal motivation? Such a technology does exist, and has seen
limited use in humans for several decades. The practice is known as
evoking pleasure by Electrical Stimulation of the Brain (ESB), and
despite its invention in 1954, few people have ever heard of it, and
much fewer have ever experienced it. It sounds like the stuff of
science-fiction, but it’s real technology.
Sign me up, but can you say addiction? No, “we” can’t really handle it, but how interesting!