Here's an interesting coincidence. Obama announced the BRAIN Initiative in 2013. A project aimed at further understanding the brain, including mapping.

Inflation is a term used a lot, and is also applicable when talking about brain-mapping. Inflation, then flattening.

They specifically list, as a challenge for humans, that germline modification of the genome is unethical and that, as an example, new methods would be required. One cited being by way of viral method.

Didn't Covid 19 modify the genome?

https://www.braininitiative.nih.gov/vision/nih-brain-initiative-reports/brain-2025-scientific-vision