Neuralink Technology - Elon Musk
Another one of Elon Musk’s tech innovations
Earlier, we saw about the new Starlink satellites that will provide a whole new form of internet access. Now, Elon musk claims to provide access to ‘Smart’ tech for physically disabled people. How? He’s literally going to put a processor chip inside your brain, if you’d want to.
‘Neuralink’ is a coin sized chip, developed by Elon musk and his team. “It’s like having a Fitbit in your brain with wires.” Elon said in a livestream. During the event, he said that the team planted one of their chips in a pig’s brain 2 months earlier. Gertrude the pig was monitored in a pen, simulating its natural environment. As he moves around the pen, the graphs shown in monitors started to show results. “The beeps that you hear are signal bursts from the chip inside his brain.”
Medical tests are still going on as to determine the safety of Neuralink in one of our heads. But conducting the trials and ensuring safety can take years. The processor, which now sends signals to the systems, will, in the future, be developed to send complex commands to technology. This is how the Neuralink would be helpful for physically disabled people.
Elon also stated that they are working closely with FDA (Ministry of Food and Drug Administration) to ensure the success of this product. But Elon’s records are neither good nor bad, Considering the successes of SpaceX and issues with the Tesla products.
On the other side, China boasts of its own records in Neurotechnology. They call Elon’s Neuralink ‘Invasive’. China states that they are working on a ‘Non-Invasive’ Neurotechnology.
“The Future is going to be weird”.
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