Neuralink CEO – Elon Musk has been making the news lately with his pig experiment, demonstrating that the implanted brain device can read and write information to pigs’ brains. Musk has promised that Neuralink would start human trials by the end of 2020 with the aim of treating people who have severe neurological disorders.
Some interesting uses within the next 10 years are that people could become telepathic to some degree as more sophisticated neural interfaces emerge and allow us to connect to computers – or each other. The company envisions this technology will allow us to communicate wirelessly with the world. It would enable us to share our thoughts, fears, hopes, and anxieties without demeaning ourselves with written or spoken language.
One consequence of this is that it would allow us to be connected to the internet at the biological level. But it’s who would be connecting back with us, how, where, why, and when that are the real questions.