China Approves Commercial Brain Implants as Neural Frontier Opens #
The final enclosure of the human commons has begun not in the forests or the fields, but within the synaptic architecture of the mind. China’s National Medical Products Administration has formally cleared the world’s first commercially available implantable brain-computer interface (BCI). Developed by Shanghai-based Borui Kang Medical Technology, the system uses invasive electrodes to capture neural signals, ostensibly to restore movement in paralyzed patients. This move effectively accelerates the race to privatize human thought, turning our most private biological processes…