Jose Delgado and the forgotten era of brain chips (2005) [pdf]

Related article by same author, posted after Delgado died in 2011:

Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Mind Control - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-...

Something I don't hear about very much is the potential for these implants to get covered in biofilms.

We learned in microbiology that all implants eventually get colonized by bacteria - it's only a matter of time.

Oftentimes (such as with urinary catheters), host-derived factors like fibrinogen are deposited on the foreign surfaces and bacteria then latch on to these deposits. Other times, the bacteria attach directly to the foreign surface.

There are even cancers associated with particular textures of breast implants which get covered with particular microbes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26890506/

This seems to be a huge hurdle towards brain implants..

In breast implants, there is actually a form of lymphoma which you are much more likely to get

I just self-published a sci-fi novel based on the idea of brain chips. It really feel like it’s out of the zeitgeist.