Superhuman powers, shared memories, and the end of all disease are promising hopes coming out of brain-computer interface technology research, but what happens if an AI-human hybrid becomes infected with malware? "I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?"Friederich Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" Have you ever found yourself passing by a restaurant, a place of business, or somewhere out in nature and you smell something familiar and immediately you are whisked away in time and space to a place in your memory that seems as real as the day you first experienced it? This happens automatically, without thinking, and things that were forgotten for years or even decades suddenly come flooding in.

"What is the ape to a man? And so shall man be to the Übermensch." Years ago, as a teenager in France, I used to visit a family friend, Monsieur de la Place. He lived with his wife in a high-rise in a small town outside of Paris. An old man, one side of his body had been paralyzed by a stroke. He was very educated and profound, and became a mentor of sorts to me for a time.