For those of you who have read the story “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” by H. P. Lovecraft, this little news item might seem vaguely familiar:

The First Successful Demonstration Of Brain-To-Brain Communication In Humans

Two human subjects, one in India and one in France, successfully transmitted the words “hola” and “ciao” in a computer-assisted brain-to-brain transmission using internet-linked electroencephalogram (EEG) and robot-assisted image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technologies.

Hmmm. It’s not much just yet, and apparently the setup was fairly impressive, but the fact that there are machines that examine your brain electromagnetically and can send that info to another brain which reverses the process into another brain is potentially important. Imagine being “locked in,” and now being able to communicate, even if only in slow, slow binary.