Wednesday, July 22, 2020

"Elon Musk Says Neuralink Will Stream Music Straight Into Your Brain"

I'd be more comfortable with the idea if Elon could keep the bumpers on his cars ON HIS CARS:
Tesla Model 3 Rear Bumper Falling Off Issue More Widespread Than Expected
From Futurism, July 20:
Elon Musk’s brain-hacking startup Neuralink is gearing up for a long-awaited reveal on August 28.
And Musk himself can’t seem to help himself from teasing the brain-computer interface. On Sunday afternoon, when computer scientist Austin Howard asked Musk on Twitter if we could one day listen to music directly through such an interface — streaming it directly into the brain, in other words, with no headphones needed — Musk replied with a curt “yes.”

Skull Lasers
We still know very little about what Neuralink has been working on. Our best look so far came during a 2019 presentation in which the company showed off a device that hooks up to the brain via holes in the skull cut by lasers....
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We've looked at Neuralink a few times,:
May 2020 
August 2017

And dozens more.
But they all pale in comparison to:
....For the ultimate explanation of what Elon & Co. are trying to do, the go-to is WaitButWhy, to whom we first linked in 2017:
More Than You Might Want To Know About Elon Musk's Neuralink
Meanwhile, there appears to be a booming business in the Model 3 replacement bumper space.