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…