The quest for human-machine interfaces is increasingly driving CVC investments.

Blurring the lines between man and machine is an ambition lifted straight from the pages of science fiction. Take for instance Imp, a disembodied and progressively unhinged human brain sent into space to control humanity’s interplanetary monitoring platform in Joseph McElroy’s 1977 post-modern story, Plus.

Sci-fi anticipates the invention of technologies we hope to utilise one day. And while Imp’s invention remains unlikely – the concept almost certainly violates Isaac Asimov’s Laws of Robotics in terms of causing harm to…

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