Elon Musk recently shared that his implantable brain-computer interface company, Neuralink just achieved a major milestone by implanting the first chip into a human being's brain.
Neuralink's mission is to: Create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.
Thus for now, the implant is mainly geared to those who are deaf, blind, etc. However, in the future we can very well imagine a Matrix-like situation unfolding.
The Matrix was released in 1999 during a Uranus-Neptune world transit. Uranus symbolizes technology and Neptune represents the interconnected nature of reality. Uranus-Neptune periods reflect the merging of technology and the human spirit. So while the World Wide Web was coming into being, we had a phenomenal film such as The Matrix expressing a similar theme.
Uranus and Neptune are in a soft aspect right now, and will be in alignment until the end of the decade. Thus, stories like Neuralink, in which the dissolving of boundaries between technology and human being will subtly continue to enter into the zeitgeist.
A major alignment between Uranus and Neptune will unfold from 2034 to 2045. This will be a critical period of evolution for brain interface technologies and virtual reality.