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Elon Musk's latest venture aims to bring a product to market within four years, but it could be additional decade before healthy people get "neural lace" brain implants:
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink Corp is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.
Neuralink is aiming to bring to the market a product that helps with certain severe brain injuries due to stroke, cancer lesion etc, in about four years, Musk said in an interview with website Wait But Why.
"If I were to communicate a concept to you, you would essentially engage in consensual telepathy," Musk said in the interview published on Thursday. http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
Reuters links to an incredibly long piece with some possibly informative stick figure drawings.
Previously: Elon Musk Launches Company to Link Your Brain to a Computer
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @04:03AM (7 children)
That is to... achm... empower "severe brain injuries due to stroke, cancer lesion etc" sufferers to live their dream; that is to participate in the economy as Uber/Lyft drivers, right?
'Cause... Really now!!! The able people are sick and tired to pay heath care taxes, its highway robbery conducted by a violent imposed monopoly; the free market paradise would be so much better without them. Evolution without restriction, baby, oh yeah... harvest those brains and put them into self-driving highend sport cars, the 0.01% is a yuuge potential market**
(large trollish grin)
** (mmmm, that's actually quite an interesting idea for a dystopian story)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @04:06AM
Sure great idea to give disabled people false hope for a few years until Uber Lyft goes all self driving instead.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday April 23 2017, @04:13AM (3 children)
Just imagine. Somewhere out there, at some time, alien civilizations have reached the point at which they invented brain implants to help damaged individuals to function normally. And they started automating away jobs around the same time. This tragedy could be repeated millions of times across the universe.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Sunday April 23 2017, @04:19AM (2 children)
A very adequate description of the USian society as seen from other countries, really!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 23 2017, @09:08PM (1 child)
There are different shades of "alien" with regard to world societies -- West Africa, for example, is like the Klingon home world. Its inhabitants greet each other with rape and violence, there is no rule of law other than force, and the average conversation sounds like a bunch of pitbulls barking and snarling at each other.
Compare to that, the U.S. is like Risa*.
* Actually, the U.S. is like that one planet that's perfect except that you can get the death penalty for breaking glass. And its a shame, because the one person who skirted that law was the super-annoying Wesley "Shut up" Crusher.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 24 2017, @09:28AM
True... yet US still come in the "alien" territory, no matter if others seem even more outlandish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday April 23 2017, @04:36AM (1 child)
I didn't expect a
its highway robbery conducted by a violent imposed monopoly;
I was more expecting an non-consensual telepathic exchange from Eland Musky: What did we used to call that, again? The analogy holds; if consensual telepathy is possible, so is non-consensual. And sometimes "No!" means just "no". Get out of my head, Elongater! Rat Lungworm of Venture Capital! Oh, the Horror, the Horror!!!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:28AM
Mmhhh... [youtu.be]
Right?... [youtube.com]
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford