>We’re still a long way from real wetware (direct brain-computer connections) . . . but last week an NYU professor had a digital camera implanted in his head. I

>We’re still a long way from real wetware (direct brain-computer connections) . . . but last week an NYU professor had a digital camera implanted in his head. It’ll be many years (if ever) before that goes mainstream, but the line between the mind and its tech is growing finer. So, really, here doesn't come the wetware. But the author is correct to disclaim "if ever." The simple reality is that medicine isn't anywhere near the point yet where sticking something in transcranially is anything apart from a major, expensive, and risky operation (the NYU prof's camera implant is transdermal, but stops well short of the cranium). The popularity of breast augmentations and the like may prove the societal acceptance of elective surgery, but until medicine has advanced to the point where you can do a brain job as routinely and safely as a boob job, it's not going to happen.