human genome project changed the course of medicine giving us a disk with all our genes on it, obama announceed the brain initiative with the europeans. $1 billion, that's billion with a b, not an m, will be devoted to creating a map, map of the brain. just think of it, we will have the genome and the connectome, all the neural connections of the mind on a disk. the short-term goal is to cure mental illness. mental illness has been with us since biblical times, even the bible mentions mental illness. but if we have a connectome and we have the genome on two disks, then in some sense if you die, you live forever. you live forever this some sense because your personality, your memories, your wants and desires are coded inside a disk. so when i was a kid, i was fascinated by telepathy, reading minds, telekinesis, moving objects with the mind. recording memories, uploading memories, photographing a dream. believe it or not to, we can do all of the above. and you will see that in today's slide show. but when i was a kid, i used to try to read people's minds. i tried real hard to move object toes wit