WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts. “Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game. The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people, and yes, it’s as weird as it sounds.”

Perhaps the social-media hive mind is just a warmup for what’s next.