Interesting subject and mind-game. I do think that if we can stick around for long enough (with how much damage we've done to our ecosystem) that we could be able to create some sort of bio technology that does work with our brainwaves.
Perhaps a more fun and human-based method would be attempting knowledge transmission from one human to another through some sort of psychic or meditative trance.
I was listening to a podcast on the government funding of remote viewing earlier, perhaps some similar techniques could be used to watch and learn skills or techniques. Granted, not quite as quick as hooking up to the matrix machine!
I had read the remote vieving stories as well. But this should need a long and intensive training to be able to do it.
There are experiments with implanted chips in the brains of rats, where they can communicate telepathically over long distances.
Rats communicate throughbrain chips
If that is possible with rats, then certainly also with humans.
I've heard as well of plant experiments. Clones or plants raised in the same pot that are then separated can still send signals and know when the other is in distress even when they aren't in the same room.
We definitely underestimate our power!