On May 27, 1995, Reeve became a quadriplegic after being thrown from a horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Virginia.

These efforts are the leading candidate for the first human trials on a broad scale for motor cortical implants to help quadriplegic or locked in patients communicate with the outside world.

For those who have disabilities the paraplegic there's the era of brain computer interface, or BCI, where chips have been put on the motor cortex of completely quadriplegic patients and they can control a curser or a wheelchair or, eventually, a robotic arm.