Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University, says he has achieved the world’s first purely electronic communication from brain to brain, and therefore the basis for thought communication.

Warwich, who has an implant in his arm linking his nervous system to the internet, making him a human cyborg, is able to communicate this way with his wife, who has a similar implant.

“We’re looking at the first thought communication experiments within a decade,” he said. “Within twenty years I would think that this could start to become a commercial reality, so you can go and have a little thing injected into your head, and communicate with other people just by thinking…. It [also opens] up the possibility of pictorial, graphical, colourful communication from brain to brain.”