Future thinking: Keanu Reeves was uploaded brain information directly in The Matrix
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Anyone who has ever watched a sci-fi film and wished they could upload information to their brain in seconds could be in luck.
Scientists have developed a way of amplifying learning in a way that almost mimics the methods used in The Matrix.
In the film, Neo – played by Keanu Reeves – has a range of kung-fu skills ‘uploaded’ directly into his brain in just a few seconds.
Experts working at the HRL Information and System Sciences Laboratory in California, have been able to do the same thing, albeit on a lesser scale.
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