Posted on 02/08/2025 1:38:25 AM PST by RandFan
... Elon Musk would ultimately turn this quality to his advantage when, after nearly eight years of being quadriplegic, Noland agreed to allow the world’s richest man to implant an electronic chip into his brain. In January 2024, Noland became the first human recipient of a brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by Musk’s company, Neuralink. If it worked, it would allow him to control a computer using only the power of his mind.
Only four months after he first heard about Neuralink, Noland was on an operating table, with a purpose-built robot poised to insert the N1 chip into his motor cortex. The stakes could not have been higher for him: he was risking infection, haemorrhage and brain damage. “My brain is the last part of myself that I really feel I have control over,” he tells me from his wheelchair at his kitchen table in Yuma, Arizona. But the stakes for humankind, too, were very great: if Neuralink succeeds, the world’s most powerful billionaire will have fulfilled his science-fiction-fuelled dreams of melding minds with machines.
What kind of person chooses to be Elon Musk’s guinea pig? And, once the experiment is over, what happens next – for Noland, and for the rest of us?
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
You can’t be serious. The party is corrupt and demonic period. Your friends have a problem they need to “deal with”. After all that has transpired with their party over DECADES, that you or they think it’s salvageable is bizarre.
By chance are you related to Vic Tayback of “Alice” fame?
I can die and go to heaven now. I’ve interacted with Big Hollywood Star!😂🤡
“By chance are you related to Vic Tayback of “Alice” fame?
I can die and go to heaven now. I’ve interacted with Big Hollywood Star!😂🤡”
No not related to Vic Tayback but I did put 50 Cent’s grandfathers name on his tomb stone yesterday. Didn’t see Fitty though.
😉👍
I’d take one to run a...
I agree, if you are missing limbs, senses...I would step right up there for help. With the coming AI there will be people that abuse it, all tools are like that, but look at what it can do for people. I am very excited to see what happens the next few years.
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