Elon Musk encourages rock star status, and has made a big song and dance about restoring free speech to Twitter, but we will see where this goes as the tyrannically woke EU lines up for law suits. The White House is also watching, presumably ready for attack, as someone might say something on Twitter that the Democrat regime does not like.
Meanwhile Musk himself, with is IT firm Neuralink claims that it will be inserting chips into the human brain within months. Oh, it is always to solve some medical problem, you know, make the cripples walk and other miracles. In reality this is part of the transhuman agenda, making the first cyborgs. The endgame of this will be exactly as depicted in the Terminator movies, with no need for time travel.
“Neuralink Corp. has yet to achieve its primary goal of implanting a computing device into the brain of a human. And yet, in typical fashion for an Elon Musk venture, the company is already bounding ahead, aiming implants at other body parts.
During an event Wednesday night at the company’s Fremont, California, headquarters, Musk revealed work on two major products in addition to the brain-computer interface, which would need to be drilled into a person’s skull and would initially be used to treat traumatic brain injuries. Neuralink is also developing implants that can go into the spinal cord and potentially restore movement in someone suffering from paralysis. And it has an ocular implant meant to improve or restore human vision.
(Bloomberg) -- Neuralink Corp. has yet to achieve its primary goal of implanting a computing device into the brain of a human. And yet, in typical fashion for an Elon Musk venture, the company is already bounding ahead, aiming implants at other body parts.
During an event Wednesday night at the company’s Fremont, California, headquarters, Musk revealed work on two major products in addition to the brain-computer interface, which would need to be drilled into a person’s skull and would initially be used to treat traumatic brain injuries. Neuralink is also developing implants that can go into the spinal cord and potentially restore movement in someone suffering from paralysis. And it has an ocular implant meant to improve or restore human vision.
“As miraculous as that may sound, we are confident that it is possible to restore full-body functionality to someone who has a severed spinal cord,” Musk said at the event. Turning to Neuralink’s vision work, he said, “Even if they have never seen before, we are confident they could see.”
In parallel, Neuralink has been refining the main product for the brain, which consists of a tiny device and electrode-laced wires, along with a robot that carves out a piece of a person’s skull and implants the wiring. Ongoing discussions with the US Food and Drug Administration have gone well enough for the company to set a target of its first human trials within the next six months, according to Musk.
The goal of the brain-computer interface, known as a BCI, is initially to allow a person with a debilitating condition — such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or suffering the aftereffects of a stroke — to communicate via their thoughts. The company demonstrated that with a monkey “telepathically typing” on a screen in front of it. The Neuralink device translates neuronal spikes into data that can be interpreted by a computer. Musk’s hope is that the device could one day become mainstream and allow for the transfer of information between humans and machines. He has long argued that humans can only keep up with the advances being made by artificial intelligence with the help of computer-like augmentations.”