“When I meet Kennedy there one day in May 2015, he’s dressed in a tweed jacket and a blue-flecked tie, and his hair is neatly parted and brushed back from his forehead in a way that reveals a small depression in his left temple. “That’s when he was putting the electronics in,” Kennedy says with a slight Irish accent. “The retractor pulled on a branch of the nerve that went to my temporalis muscle. I can’t lift this eyebrow.” Indeed, I notice that the operation has left his handsome face with an asymmetric droop.” First, Kennedy was urgent to achieve his goal -- helping ALS patients and locked-in patients, that he eventually
hacked his own brain. When the author was doing the interview and saw the scar on Kennedy’s face, he felt very sympathetic and awestruck for him.
“By taking on the risk himself, by working alone and out-of-pocket, Kennedy managed to create a sui generis record of language in the brain.” The author was amazed by the courage and fearlessness of Kennedy to risk his life to achieve his lifelong dream, to explore neuroscience and to cure his patients. He dedicated his whole life to neuroscience and the author admires his faith and persistence. The author doubts the modern technology and believes that he will eventually one day change the word and correct the mistakes in the modern electronics. “I know that, around the corner, technology far better than Kennedy’s juddering computer, his clunky electronics, and my Google Nexus 5 phone is on its way. But will people really want to entrust their brains to it?”