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Elon says it, so it must be true:
Humans must become cyborgs and develop a direct high-bandwidth connection with machines or risk irrelevance and obsolescence, says Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Musk's latest cheery thoughts were imparted at the World Government Summit in the UAE. "Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk said, according to CNBC.
The main thrust of Musk's argument seems to hinge on the limited bandwidth and processing power of a single human being. Computers can ingest, transfer, and process gigabytes of data per second, every second, forever. Meatbags, however, are severely limited by an input/output rate—talking, typing, listening—that's best measured in bits per second. Thus, to risk being replaced by a robot or artificial intelligence, we need to become machines.
(Score: 3, Touché) by meustrus on Wednesday February 15 2017, @10:10PM
It didn't. Human => computer interfaces through eye movements or brain waves have been in development since the previous century. They aren't ready yet for an entrepreneur to make a serious product out of them, but they might be soon. Look in the medical space; this tech is how Hawking speaks these days.
Musk doesn't even seem to be claiming he's developing the interface. He's just claiming it will be necessary.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?