A new research study suggests that human brains could be merged with technology significantly sooner than many expect, perhaps "within decades." Known as the "Human Brain/Cloud Interface" (B/CI), researchers at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing in California have suggested that nanorobots could be implanted into the human body and connect to a network in real-time. "These devices would navigate the human vasculature, cross the blood-brain barrier, and precisely autoposition themselves among, or even within brain cells," the study's senior author, Robert Freitas, Jr., said in a statement. "They would then wirelessly transmit encoded information to and from a cloud-based supercomputer network for real-time brain-state monitoring and data extraction." The research was published in the scientific journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience. First proposed by futurist Ray Kurzweil - who has also suggested that computers will be as smart as humans within a decade - the concept of B/CI would