  New computing technologies inspired by the brain promise fundamentally
different ways to process information with extreme energy efficiency and the
ability to handle the avalanche of unstructured and noisy data that we are
generating at an ever-increasing rate. To realise this promise requires a brave
and coordinated plan to bring together disparate research communities and to
provide them with the funding, focus and support needed. We have done this in
the past with digital technologies; we are in the process of doing it with
quantum technologies; can we now do it for brain-inspired computing?
