Neurotechnology is the biggest trend no one's aware of. It's advancing at a shocking rate. It's probably going to be the "world wide web" of the 2020s, that fledging technology that explodes as time goes on that no one saw coming.
Beyond Neuralink, we also have Kernel and Stentrode:
Kernel is making neuro measurement mainstream. We are a world-class team of engineers, neuroscientists, physicists and operators working to usher in a new era for the brain and mind.
www.kernel.com
Human trials for a first-of-a-kind device designed to treat the brain via electrical stimulation have brought some very promising results. Called Stentrode, the implant has the potential to treat a wide range of neurological conditions, but in these very first trials, has brought about significant…
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And I know Openwater is still active, but they haven't announced anything recently.
What's funny is that science fiction
completely dropped the ball here. I mean it's fairly rare to find any sci-fi that shows off near-future neurotech. Whenever it comes to control and manipulation of digital objects, we have a tendency to default to voice and gesture recognition, and my hypothesis is because they're "easier" to understand as well as less esoteric— we tend to see anything involving brain-controlled technology/mechanisms as just a little bit too "magical." The asymptote of capability we reached with EEG didn't help either, so even when people learn about neurotech, 99/100 they're learning about EEG and its stark limitations rather than something like MEG, fNIRS, or invasive measures. Considering science fiction is how the layman learns about the bleeding edge, I'll put money down that, by 2030, we're going to find the dearth of discussion about neurotechnology on the eve of its explosion to be
downright embarrassing, akin to someone saying that humankind wasn't going to achieve powered flight for a million years circa 1902.