Elon just announced that Neuralink has implanted its first brain interface chip into a person.
It’s called Telepathy.
” It enables control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking. Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal.”
If you play this out, one can reasonably see a future where you can choose to have one. Where you can choose to be augmented. Truly bionic.Β
Yes, we gotta ask all the questions like who, where, when, why and let all the sides argue it out and consider this, that, blah, blah, blah. Probably for generations.
But if you could, would you get one?