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by nknighthb 4768 days ago
We've been directly stimulating the acoustic nerve since the 1960s. The first commercial "bionic eye" was FDA approved in February. Various brain-computer interfaces, invasive and not, have proven practical if still rather crude over the last 20 years.

"Matrix style" is already here, it just doesn't use a giant SO-239 in the back of the head.