What We Thought This Decade Would Be Like Vs. Reality

We’d All Have Brain Chip Implants

In recent years, humans have made some awesome advancements in biometrics. Your thumbprint serves as a super secure password to your iPhone, but many sci-fi films and TV shows (including Black Mirror) have predicted biometric implants in human beings. This is a step beyond a FitBit, and simply isn’t used in any capacity approved by the FDA, but that doesn’t mean scientists aren’t trying.

According to Gizmodo, a company called DARPA is working on a brain chip implant that helps cure depression. Back in 2006, the experimental technology was implanted inside a woman named Liss Murphy – and it worked. The research effort currently has $65 million of backing.