Computer chips are invading our lives with our phones, cars, television sets, medical devices and smart houses. There are private laboratories around the world that are like the Lex Luthor labs in the popular TV series "Smallville". What lies within privately funded laboratories? With private funding, artificial limbs have made life possible for injured veterans and accident victims. Now, research has made great strides in creating computer chips to improve how we think and what lives we could live. Technical universities like MIT are way ahead. What humanoids lie in wait? Are they here among us now? Will psychiatric diseases be eradicated with medicine and new brain hardware?

Chips are being designed to mimic the neurons in the brain. If computers store memory through minuscule chips, then why not adapt a chip to be implanted inside our brains so we can gain instant knowledge? The future could hold that possibility. What an exciting but dangerous situation! Who would get the chip and who wouldn't? Would it become law that everyone implant a chip?

Some people would probably receive chips to help them in their particular jobs. Who would decide what jobs? Possibly after a few years a child would begin to show talents and a chip would be fashioned to enhance his abilities. Chips could also be inserted in people to serve others in menial jobs. Would Government choose the persons for the implants, or would it be an individual's choice? Schools could be obsolete as learning institutions and become the hub of social activities in communities. Scary.

Neuroscience Departments are now using a process they call "neuromorphing" to build complicated electronic circuits meant to mimic the behavior of neural circuits. Most of their studies seek to learn how the neurons in the hippocampus and other parts of the brain form memories. Could a chip be implanted to store our memories for future use in cases of amnesia or Alzheimer's Disease? Scientists hope to have a complete model of a human brain within ten years. Will our children have robots who care for them and become part of the household? Probably.