Brain Interfaces – Fiction becoming fact.

A brain implant which restores vision by stimulating the cortex directly, entirely bypassing lens, retina and optic nerve!

http://www.massdevice.com/second-sight-reveals-1st-implant-orion-visual-cortical-stimulator/

This is basically the tech used by Spex in my Singularity’s Children books.

Mind Reading

Spontaneous Decoding of the Timing and Content of Human Object Perception from Cortical Surface Recordings”

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004660

More real progress towards singularity level tech.

User interface paradigms:

Command Line -> Windowing -> Multi Touch -> AR Gesture -> Thought