{"id":174184,"date":"2023-10-14T06:12:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/elon-musk-wants-more-bandwidth-between-people-and-machines-do-we-need-it"},"modified":"2023-10-14T06:12:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:12:15","slug":"elon-musk-wants-more-bandwidth-between-people-and-machines-do-we-need-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/elon-musk-wants-more-bandwidth-between-people-and-machines-do-we-need-it","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk wants more bandwidth between people and machines. Do we need it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-wants-more-bandwidth-between-people-and-machines-do-we-need-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speeding up communication between humans is surprisingly tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a post by Elon Musk on X (formerly known as Twitter) caught my eye. The entrepreneur claimed that sticking electrodes in people\u2019s heads is going to lead to a huge increase in the rate of data transfer out of, and into, human brains.<\/p>\n<p>The occasion of Musk\u2019s post was the announcement by Neuralink, his brain-computer interface (BCI) company, that it was officially seeking the first volunteer to receive the \u201cN1,\u201d an implant comprising 1,024 electrodes able to listen in on brain neurons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speeding up communication between humans is surprisingly tricky. Last week, a post by Elon Musk on X (formerly known as Twitter) caught my eye. The entrepreneur claimed that sticking electrodes in people\u2019s heads is going to lead to a huge increase in the rate of data transfer out of, and into, human brains. The occasion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174184","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=174184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}