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Edge Computing Is Creating a New Industrial Nervous System

September 28, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

Factories once ran on muscle, then on machines, and eventually on automation. Today, they are evolving into something entirely different—organisms with their own nervous systems. At the heart of this transformation is edge computing, a shift that allows industries to process data in real time, right where it’s generated.

The global edge computing market was valued at $16.45 billion in 2023 and is projected to skyrocket to $155.90 billion by 2030, growing at an annual rate of 36.9%. Meanwhile, connected IoT devices worldwide are expected to generate 79.4 zettabytes of data by 2025. This tidal wave of information would overwhelm centralized systems, but edge computing ensures decisions can be made instantly, without waiting for distant servers or cloud providers.

This is more than an efficiency play. It is the quiet construction of a new industrial nervous system.

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Hacking our nervous system

June 5, 2015

Former gymnast Maria Vrind from Volendam in the Netherlands, had to accept that things had reached a crisis point, when she found that the only way she could put her socks on in the morning was to lie on her back with her feet in the air. “I had become so stiff I couldn’t stand up,” she says. “It was a great shock because I’m such an active person.” Continue reading… “Hacking our nervous system”

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Neurogaming trends are revolutionize the gaming industry

April 11, 2014

Neurogaming is where the mind and body meet game-play.

New gaming platforms, segments, and technologies are being introduced and adopted faster than ever before – sometimes more rapidly than we can grasp their full potential. There are some exciting times ahead in the neurogaming ecosystem.

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Breakthrough prosthetic hand restores amputee’s sense of touch

February 10, 2014

Dennis Sørensen smiles confidently with his new robotic hand as he flexes his robotic fingers, and gingerly closes them around a disposable plastic cup. Sørensen is blindfolded but he instantly recognizes what he is touching. Round. Hard. Breakable. Lethargic sensory nerves, rusty and unused since an accident nine years ago, begin to stir.

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The future of brain-to-brain communication

October 30, 2013

University of Washington researchers.

The first brain-to-brain communication occurred when a rat pressed a lever, anticipating the tasty reward it’d been trained to expect. An implant in the rat’s brain converted its neural activity into an electronic signal and beamed the impulse to the brain of the second rat, which leaped forward and pressed a lever in its own cage . But rat #2 had never been trained to press the lever. Its movement impulse came not from its own brain, but directly from the brain of rat #1 – despite the fact that the two were separated by thousands of miles.

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