We honestly believe, as do most analysts, that it's not too long into the futurebefore the price curves of technologies like standard photovoltaic solar and some upcoming breakthroughs are at cost parity with conventionally -- like, coal-burning-generated electricity.
Work is still early enough that there's a long way to go before such implants are part of any treatments, but there's hope that future chip iterations could help fix inner ear maladies, not just report on them.
As for the futureof corporate meddling on Wikipedia, Zimmerman says it won't be longbefore public relations executives learn to hide their tracks with anonymity tools.