D. Scott Phoenix

Your calendar probably went next.

Then little judgment calls you used to make for yourself.

The tool was great at it, so you let the tool do it.

And while something left your head, a better thing took its place.

You stopped checking your spelling, and you started writing.

You stopped remembering how to get there, and you started thinking about what you'd say when you arrived.

And notice how we keep pulling these tools closer to us.

The mainframe was in a whole other building.

We put the PC on our desk, the smartphone in our pocket, the smartwatch on our wrist, smart glasses on our face.

Every step, closer to our minds, closer to the speed of thought.

And even that boundary is starting to blur.

Right now, paralyzed patients are typing with their thoughts.

Neural implants are restoring speech, vision and hearing to people who've lost them.

Noland Arbaugh, the first person to receive a Neuralink brain implant, says that using it feels like using the force.

The machine doesn't feel like a machine.

It feels like him.

And you may not realize it, but a technology we all use every day is learning to hear our thoughts.

The face ID system you use to unlock your phone is being repositioned into headphones and glasses, where it can recognize microscopic muscle movements just beneath our skin, movements imperceptible to the human eye.

The system that first learned to recognize us is now starting to see inside.

Today, a brain implant has about a thousand connections into the brain, and soon it will have 10,000 and then 100,000 and then a million.