Elon Musk With Neuralink Wants To Connect Our Brains To The Internet

Elon Musk has no time to lose with ordinary ideas. Considered by some to be the world's biggest risk taker, SpaceX CEO and Tesla pushes the boundaries of common sense and offers more ideas - viable or not - to change the world. The latest? Neuralink, a micro-transmitter implantable in the human brain ... able to connect to the Internet. It sounds like science fiction but it's only a matter of time before the project becomes a reality.

Should we be more concerned or rejoice in this research?

An article in Scientific American states that Neuralink technology will soon enable a human being to be biologically connected to the Internet without the need to write or speak. This is a very exciting news but a few questions ask: What are the risks of infection related to surgery? Who will do this: doctor, nurse, other medical personnel? Or will it have more to do with less regulated tattoo parlors?

Who controls the interface: the implanted, the supplier or a government agency? What will prevent hackers and other hackers from interfering and / or damaging the Internet connection and accessing your sensitive data?

If this technology works, will everyone be forced to use an implant, or will it be possible to continue using the Internet via a digital platform? What about performance at work if employees have a 24/7 Internet connection?

According to immigration lawyer Joshua L. Goldstein, "important issues related to work performance argue that age will have a major impact on this new technology."

Who will fund the final research phase to make this technology reliable and cost-effective? What impact on social networks? What are the implications for communication between people?

All these questions represent only the immersed part of the iceberg about what Neuralink could bring to us ... or risk taking us out on a daily basis.

Although Neuralink is only at the forefront of design and design, it does not bother investors to already consider buying shares in this new project. Elon Musk is a reference name in the world of technology and high finance - as soon as he puts his finger on something that investors follow him. Some would be willing to sell their Ferrari to finance the purchase of a Neuralink stock.

The effects are already formidable for the experimental uses of the implant, especially in the medical world. Thus patients with Parkinson's continue to interact fully with the outside world, when their carnal envelope begins to deteriorate. Elon Musk is the first to admit that we are far from knowing the human brain well, and that a neural computer link will have profound implications for its functioning - not even imaginable at the moment.

But men have always dreamed of widening the scope of the possibilities of the human brain, and a supplement of artificial intelligence is too tempting. Thus, potentially irreversible consequences are not likely to hamper research or prevent the implementation of this technology.

Work and research are gaining momentum in this exciting technology. Experts now predict that a viable interface between the brain and the Internet should be commercialized over the next twenty years or even earlier. Countries such as Russia and China are no longer communicating about their advances in the way of cyber-neurotransmission ... which can hold nice surprises when they finally decide to reveal everything.

Let us hope only that neuroethics will follow the rhythm of neurotechnology.