Well, the irony of that one is that not needing surgery or implants is the more advanced solution, even if it’s less… superficially cyberpunky, I guess?

People really like the Elon Musk-y thing where you implant chips to read stuff from your brain, but it’s actually a lot cooler to pick up the chain from the place it got severed without having to go putting things inside people (or cutting into them at all, if possible).