{"id":115066,"date":"2020-10-25T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/elon-musks-neuralink-is-neuroscience-theater"},"modified":"2020-10-25T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:22:43","slug":"elon-musks-neuralink-is-neuroscience-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/elon-musks-neuralink-is-neuroscience-theater","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink is neuroscience theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-neuralink-is-neuroscience-theater.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rock-climb without fear. Play a symphony in your head. See radar with superhuman vision. Discover the nature of consciousness. Cure blindness, paralysis, deafness, and mental illness. Those are just a few of the applications that Elon Musk and employees at his four-year-old neuroscience company Neuralink believe electronic brain-computer interfaces will one day bring about.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DVvmgjBL74w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2017\/04\/22\/242999\/with-neuralink-elon-musk-promises-human-to-human-telepathy-dont-believe-it\/\">None of these advances are close at hand<\/a>, and some are unlikely to ever come about. But in a \u201cproduct update\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DVvmgjBL74w&feature=youtu.be\">streamed over YouTube<\/a> on Friday, Musk, also the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, joined staffers wearing black masks to discuss the company\u2019s work toward an affordable, reliable brain implant that Musk believes billions of consumers will clamor for in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a lot of ways,\u201d Musk said, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull, with tiny wires.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock-climb without fear. Play a symphony in your head. See radar with superhuman vision. Discover the nature of consciousness. Cure blindness, paralysis, deafness, and mental illness. Those are just a few of the applications that Elon Musk and employees at his four-year-old neuroscience company Neuralink believe electronic brain-computer interfaces will one day bring about. None [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}