{"id":134463,"date":"2022-01-21T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/elon-musks-neuralink-took-one-step-closer-to-implanting-chips-into-human-brains"},"modified":"2022-01-21T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:43:54","slug":"elon-musks-neuralink-took-one-step-closer-to-implanting-chips-into-human-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/elon-musks-neuralink-took-one-step-closer-to-implanting-chips-into-human-brains","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink Took One Step Closer to Implanting Chips Into Human Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/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\/_5UrIQmjE_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink, the company that purports to implant computer chips in human brains, just took a critical step toward actually following through.<\/p>\n<p>The brain implant firm <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/boards.greenhouse.io\/neuralink\/jobs\/4723041003\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">is officially hiring a clinical trial director<\/a>, which means Musk\u2019s futuristic firm is finally ready, at least on its own terms, to give next-gen brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) a try.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s hard to imagine being the one for whom the buck stops should anything go monstrously wrong during trials. But on the other hand, if it works, this could be the beginning of a new age of sense re-immersion for countless victims of neurological disorders, brain damage, paralysis, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink, the company that purports to implant computer chips in human brains, just took a critical step toward actually following through. The brain implant firm is officially hiring a clinical trial director, which means Musk\u2019s futuristic firm is finally ready, at least on its own terms, to give next-gen brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"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-134463","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\/134463","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}