For the first time, a neuraling chip has been implanted in the human brain. "The first man was fitted with a neuraling chip. and he's recovering well," Elon Musk wrote on his X page a few days ago.
You must be aware that Neuralink technology was talked about viral last year. You know about Elon Musk. He will be doing something new in science. Neuralink was founded by him in 2016.
The purpose of Neuralink is to implant a chip in the human brain and connect it to a computer. This is called the Brain Computer Interface (BCI). The Neuralink chip has very fine cables on a small scale. The chip is implanted at the top rather than deep in the skull. The implanted chip can record brain activity and send it to an outside device, such as a computer, so that the computer and the brain can be connected.
This technology has been tested in animals like monkeys and pigs in the past years. Last year, a video of a monkey with a neuraling chip playing a simple game on a computer was released. That's when Neuralink got the most talked about. After that, they got permission to test the human and now the chip has been implanted in the human brain. But no complete information about this neuraling test has been released.
Many companies, not just Neuralink, are involved in similar BCI studies. In 2022, a company called Synchron implanted their BCI device to humans. But Neuralink is the brain surgeon and the chip is implanted. It can be said that a lot of BCI related studies will happen in the future.
Technologies like Neuralink can do a lot of innovative things. The brain can record its activities, control devices such as computers through thought, people who do not have bodies can communicate through thought, and when artificial mechanical limbs are implanted, the brain can make them work like normal limbs.
This kind of technological development like Neuralink can take man to the next level. Connecting machines with humans, storing/transmitting thoughts, maximizing human abilities with the help of devices can be brought into the real world.
At the same time, there can be no doubt that they can cause a lot of problems. Today, with the development of the Internet, no one can expect such a thing as privacy, if the computer is directly connected to the brain, there is no question of personal life and privacy. Science and technology can grow to such an extent that someone can hack your brain and turn you into what they think. Anything can happen in the future.
We have seen such things only in science films and science fiction novels. But now that science is developing and imagination is becoming standard, the anticipation and wonder of how the world is going to change in the future is increasing.
Science and technology will continue to evolve, whether we like it or not, good or bad. If we want to conquer the future, we have to keep changing accordingly.
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