I've been reading Ramez Naam's fantastic book "Nexus," which is set in a near-future where a powerful nano-drug allows human minds to connect together. In the story, a group of enterprising neuroscientists and engineers discover they can use the drug in a new way — to run a computer operating system inside their brains.
Naam's characters telepathically communicate with each other using a mental chat app and even manipulate other people's bodies by gaining control of their... read more