'Neural revolution': Royal Society calls for inquiry into new wave of brain implants

Scientists think devices could allow people to communicate telepathically or the paralysed to walk in the next decades

Society must prepare for a technological revolution in which brain implants allow people to communicate by telepathy, download new skills, and brag about their holidays in "neural postcards", leading scientists say.

While such far-fetched applications remain fiction for now, research into brain implants and other neural devices is advancing so fast that the Royal Society has called for a "national investigation" into the technology.