Why Mapping the Brain is the Future of Neuroscience - Sebastian Seung

Sebastian Seung is President of Samsung Electronics & Head of Samsung Research whilst also a Princeton University Professor of both Neuroscience & Computer Science. Previously he was Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Harvard University, and formerly worked at Bell Laboratories.
Whilst at MIT his laboratory launched EyeWire, an online community that empowers the public to map neural connections by playing a game of coloring neural images. EyeWire is the first project of WiredDifferently, a citizen science organization with the ultimate goals of seeing the material basis of memory and finding connectopathies, "miswirings" of the brain long hypothesized to be associated with psychiatric disorders. His book Connectome was hailed in the Wall Street Journal as "the best lay book on brain science I've ever read."
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[@maryshakir710]

He mentions 2014 as being in the future, so this isn't new, right? very interesting lecture.

[@piposcat]

Is this new?