{"id":153429,"date":"2022-12-22T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/billionaires-are-investing-in-brain-computer-interface-systems-heres-why"},"modified":"2022-12-22T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:27:20","slug":"billionaires-are-investing-in-brain-computer-interface-systems-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/billionaires-are-investing-in-brain-computer-interface-systems-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires are investing in brain-computer-interface systems. Here\u2019s why"},"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\/mm95r05hui0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The technology has significantly progressed in the past 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, we reported that Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos-backed foundations (Gates Frontier and Bezos Expeditions) joined other companies.<\/p>\n<p>A fifty year history.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>1, 2, 3<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Peter Thiel, a billionaire cofounder of PayPal, invested last year in an older BCI startup called Utah\u2019s Blackrock Neurotech that has announced it hopes to apply for Food and Drug Administration approval soon. What is behind this popular rush to support BCI firms?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/billionaires-are-investing-in-brain-computer-interface-systems-heres-why\">Continue reading \u201cBillionaires are investing in brain-computer-interface systems. Here\u2019s why\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technology has significantly progressed in the past 50 years. Earlier this month, we reported that Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos-backed foundations (Gates Frontier and Bezos Expeditions) joined other companies. A fifty year history. 1, 2, 3 Finally, Peter Thiel, a billionaire cofounder of PayPal, invested last year in an older BCI startup called Utah\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153429","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=153429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}