The fact that “technology leadership” now fixates on brain implants should be a warning signal.

Not because it’s futuristic — but because it shows how far the industry has drifted away from the work.

Human intelligence doesn’t scale by wiring into neurons.

It scales at the brain–hand–tool boundary.

Our highest-bandwidth, lowest-ambiguity interface is not the cortex — it’s the fingertips:

evolutionarily optimized

richly instrumented

externally verifiable

safely debuggable

A brain has no stable API.

Hands do.

When leaders stop building, touching, testing, and shipping, they start believing cognition is abstract and frictionless. That’s how you end up proposing invasive interfaces instead of improving the ones that already work.

This isn’t bold vision.

It’s distance from reality.

Real progress enhances embodied intelligence, not fantasies of bypassing it.

The void shows itself in the ideas people champion.

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