The cyberpunk dystopia looms ever-closer.
Remember when PCs were just lovely big beige boxes that sat in the corner of the room, and you'd use them for gaming or the occasional internet session? The people of the future will look back on us like cavemen with charcoal, because in the future they're all gonna be walking around with mini-PCs in their brain matter.
"We are excited to share that we have received the FDA’s approval to launch our first-in-human clinical study,". "This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people."
Musk co-founded Neuralink in 2016, and its initial goal was to have chips in human brains by 2020. When this date came and went the goal was moved to 2022, and now here we are. The ethical implications of what Neuralink is about to do to human beings are obviously gargantuan in proportion, though that conversation hasn't really started yet.
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