The government on Friday approved a new therapy for the severely depressed who have run out of treatment options: a pacemaker-like implant that sends tiny electric shocks to the brain.

Depression may be the golden in-road for testing new neural implants in otherwise healthy adults. This may seem like science fiction today, but watch the numbers and see how many neurally implanted people we have living in the U.S. within the next five years... Is that notion scary to you for some reason?