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As far as the technology itself goes, consumers will get BCI that can only do read, not write, first, and it will be quite limited in the number and kind of inputs it can detect reliably. After that, we will get higher fidelity, and maybe write, but still in a non-invasive form, which we have evidence to believe might be possible in a way that could eventually be productizable. After that, it's less predictable whether or not we will have made enough progress on invasive BCI for it to be desired by a significant portion of the population. By that time, VR/AR headsets will just about have good enough visuals to replace monitors and reality. We will have full body haptic suits and tracking, with force feedback exoskeletons taking the 6DOF sim chair market size of today. Also, many of the things we'd want a BCI to do today will be fulfilled by technology in the future at a lower price and with less risk to the user. There would be no reason, for instance, to replace a perfect pair of MR glasses with an invasive and irreversible implant. But BCI will play a role still in other parts that are mostly unrelated to the exteroceptive senses. That is, BCI will play a role as an input device to control virtual functions, it will play a role in physiological tracking, and it will play a role in intelligence/memory enhancement.