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Let’s start by petting (or shooting) the elephant in the room. All the snarksters will assume that I’m interviewing Dr. Richard Clark Kaufman on nutraceuticals because his NEURVANA company is an h+ advertiser. Not true. My corruption is entirely based on the free schwag!

Last month, h+ covered the work of Professor Byron Reeves, who champions the adaptation of gaming technologies for the workplace.

Walking into MIT’s Media Lab is like walking into a digital candy store. On the third floor, you're greeted by an HD display with “Emotional Weather” (data mined from Twitter using an intelligent agent that shows you the emotional content of tweets on any given topic).

That house over there. Is it for sale? Is there a good restaurant nearby? Jut pan the neighborhood with your camera-enabled Augmented Reality (AR) cell phone and find out.

Watch children, or adults, at play. And by “play” I mean the real thing — experimental, messy, reality-shifting and explorative, not the routinized pseudo-work we call “leisure” or “recreation.”

I am beta testing a new sense. My new sensory organ is a small anklet strap with a LiPo battery and circuit board attached to an electronic compass on the anklet’s side.

Zack Lynch is author of The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World (St. Martin's Press, July 2009). Neurotechnology is the emerging science of brain imaging and other new tools for both understanding and influencing our brains.

The Singularity. If you're an h+ reader, you've been sufficiently introduced to the concept (and if not, see Resources at the end of this interview).

Over the course of a decade, entire schools of science can come in and out of fashion, just like gadgets or buzzwords.

Direct brain-computer interfacing (BCI) may sound fanciful, but it’s already a reality — and in coming decades it will almost surely advance dramatically.