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I am currently in Lausanne, Switzerland attending a conference on the use of science and technology for sustainable development.   Yesterday, in one of the plenary sessions, the famous neuro-scientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, developer of Brain Machine Interfaces and one of those considered the forerunners in emerging technologies emphasized a very strong point – that the critical years in the development of children are not the time that they are already in formal schools but prior to it – 0 to five years old.   He argued that for us to be able to develop the next Einsteins in this age, we need to educate the children even before they were born.   This is not all thoughts and ideas, as Dr. Nicolelis is currently building the “city of the brain” in Natal, Brazil, with facilities for pregnant women, so that the child can be educated at age zero, and facilities for elementary, secondary, and tertiary learning. I am fascinated by this idea coming to life.   A facility such as this,