Donovan’s Brain and the Dawn of Living Computers
In 1944, Suspense presented one of old-time radio’s strangest and most unsettling experiments.
What if a human brain could remain alive after the body had died?
Starring Orson Welles as Dr. Patrick Cory, Donovan’s Brain begins as a tale of scientific curiosity and gradually becomes something much darker. More than eighty years later, its central idea no longer seems quite as safely confined to science fiction.
Researchers today are growing tiny structures of human neural tissue known as brain organoids, connecting them to electronic systems, and studying their ability to respond, adapt…
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