Fascinating talk by Phillip Alvelda – Program Manager: Beyond Prosthetics – describing how DARPA is developing a ‘cortical modem’ that could give us a direct interface between brains and computers by 2020. Phillip Alvelda works for DARPA and is trying to take the latest neural engineering science and technology out of the laboratory and seed the creation of new mind-enabled industries.

Some people believe that this will signify the transition from the industrial age to the age of the mind.