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Just as ancient Greeks fantasised about soaring flight, today's imaginations dream of melding minds and machines as a remedy to the pesky problem of human mortality.
Can the mind connect directly with artificial intelligence, robots and other minds through brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies to transcend our human limitations? 
Over the last 50 years, researchers at university labs and companies around the world have made impressive progress toward achieving such a vision.
Recently, successful entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk (Neuralink) and Bryan Johnson (Kernel) have announced new startups that seek to enhance human capabilities through brain-computer interfacing.
How close are we really to successfully connecting our brains to our technologies? And what might the implications be when our minds are plugged in?