In the future, people - certain people - may be able to download information directly into a device embedded in their skull and linked to their brain.
These people will also be capable of improved physical performance, courtesy of pods embedded in their bodies and controlled by a link to the brain that can release chemicals or hormones to enable performance of all kinds of tasks, even in extreme conditions.
Welcome to the future of Augmented Human.
That's what awaits us as biology and technology blend together, says business software developer MYOB Group in its latest Future of Business report entitled, appropriately, "The Augmented Human".
MYOB chief technical officer and futurist Simon Raik-Allen says technology will move from mobile, wearable technological devices such as Fitbits to tiny embeddable devices that can provide real-time data or move parts of the body.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will enable people to enhance their brain or personality.
Technological augmentation will challenge the limitations of human biology, allowing better control in the healing of injuries or the release of chemicals to make one more alert or go to sleep.
"The more our technology and our humanity start to merge, at some point, we'll become indistinguishable from the technology itself," Mr Raik-Allen said.
"Even our biology will begin to fade. And that will be the rise of the new human."
The MYOB report puts no time frame on the emergence of new embedded technologies but Mr Raik-Allen says the coming of the augmented human will also be the dawning of a new era for business.
New companies, large and small, will emerge that are dedicated to supplying consumers with the latest enhancements - whether that be an app for enhancing mental or physical capability.
Brain apps, for example, might enable a person to speak fluent Chinese whilst on a business trip to China, understand complex information much faster, or heighten the senses to hear, smell and feel more.
Businesses at the same time would become more perceptive, efficient and productive through integration of AIs.
A retailer, for example, may speak to a customer about a particular product as the retailer's artificial intelligence (AI) listens and notifies the supplier's AI.
The supplier's AI could send back information on sizes, colour and delivery times while the customer uses a retinal camera to send an image of the product to their own AI, which returns images of what the product will look like at home.
The MYOB report said technological augmentation would raise issues such as people's ability to afford technology that would significantly improve or extend life.
Like any technology, there would be "haves" and "have-nots" and those who wished to opt out on personal, social or religious grounds.
New technologies will also raise new security issues.
Mr Raik-Allen said hackers gaining access to someone's artificial intelligence or devices such as a WiFi-enabled artificial heart would be "a guaranteed problem".
"I suspect that over the next few decades as we start to develop the software, we will need to get better at securing it and locking it down," he said.
