Elon, Please Keep the Internet Out of Our Brains
A seamless link to the web could be the riskiest side effect of Neuralink’s Telepathy device, which just went into its first human subject.
The future?
Source: Bloomberg
A lucky individual has become the first human to receive a brain implant from Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink Corp., marking a step toward being able to steer computers with our minds.
The device, called Telepathy, is about the size of a quarter and was inserted with hundreds of wires and electrodes just under the skull. Its aim is to take “control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking,” according to Musk.1 Sounds great, so long as the device doesn’t plug people’s brains into the time-sucking matrix of distraction that we call the internet. Far from enhancing our lives, that could prove a step too far in being “connected.”