Interface: Opening the Mind to an Open Brain

Ever since the gap between neural and silicon circuits was bridged through a common electrical language, neural interface technologies have pushed us towards medical advances that border on the biblical: the deaf hear, the blind see, and the motionless move.  Cochlear implants have been an unprecedented success in biomedical engineering ⁽¹⁾ and may only be surpassed by the visual implants currently in development ⁽²⁾.  The first tetraplegics with implants allowing them to move robotic limbs have been veteran cyborgs for half a decade ⁽³⁾, and many amputees now have prosthetics that they can use to move and feel ⁽⁴⁾.  Even simple direct stimulation technologies