Based on the news coming out about them lately, Neuralink seems like a lost opportunity to accelerate progress in this space. A ton of money was dropped into i

Based on the news coming out about them lately, Neuralink seems like a lost opportunity to accelerate progress in this space. A ton of money was dropped into improving HMDs, and a lot of improvements to surrounding technical fields got made, it is sort of unfortunate that physics fundamentally limits what can be done there. If a similar investment had been made in BCI over 10 years, I suspect we'd be halfway to success. However it is important that there are multiple companies dumping money into R&D, so that the best methodology wins. Even in HMDs, different devices learned from each other and everyone benefitted. Of course implantable BCIs have more ethics concerns, and that likely is why the big tech companies didn't even try. But the first company to get consumer level bi-directional BCI onto the market is going to become the largest tech company ever, orders of magnitude larger than anything we see today. Based on your job, I'm guessing you are also sad that we've reached a local maxima regarding input devices! If machines were designed from scratch now days, meaning everyone had no prior expectations of keyboards/mice/touch/etc, I suspect we'd do everything very differently.