This reminds me of the mid 90s when my dad gave me a book called Saved By The Light a supposed true story about a guy that had a bunch of visions of the future after he was struck by lightning.
In that book he predicted a bunch of crap that was pretty obvious (wars in the middle east) but also he said Israel would design a bio-chip, that integrated living tissue or cells with microchips and would forever change the world. At that time it sounded insane. I'm curious how about these devices though, it still sounds pretty out-there.