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# Energy and neural control emerge as optimization frontiers
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/energy-and-neural-control-emerge-as-optimization-frontiers/
- Published: 2026-04-17T16:02:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-17T16:02:56.000Z
- Description: Not Boring’s survey identifies two concrete technical domains: energy systems (generation, storage, and grid efficiency) and non-invasive brain-body interfaces that bypass pharmaceutical or surgical intervention.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-connected, energy, neurotechnology

Source: [Not Boring](https://open.substack.com/pub/notboring/p/weekly-dose-of-optimism-189)

Not Boring's survey identifies two concrete technical domains: energy systems (generation, storage, and grid efficiency) and non-invasive brain-body interfaces that bypass pharmaceutical or surgical intervention. Both represent a shift from accepting biological and infrastructural constraints to actively optimizing them—one at civilization scale, one at the individual level. Venture and research capital are tracking toward systems that enhance rather than maintain. The "non-molecular" framing signals growing confidence in magnetic, electrical, and acoustic methods over drug-based approaches, a shift in how technologists weigh invasiveness tradeoffs.