(This article is authored by Alar)
Elon Reeve Musk, the new CEO of Twitter and a man who has long been known to think beyond imagination (he once proposed that humans become a "multiplanetary species"), has recently dropped the bombshell revelation that his company is developing technology that can implant itself inside a human brain, thereby enabling the user to communicate with a computer.
In July of 2019, he made the bold claim that by 2020, Neuralink would be ready to conduct its first human tests and even involve implanting in the skulls of monkeys. "We would initially enable someone who has almost no ability to operate their muscles... and enable them to operate their phone faster than someone who has working hands," he said.
In six months, his brain chip company Neuralink is expected to begin human clinical trials. "We want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device into a human but we've submitted I think most of our paperwork to the FDA and we think probably in about six months we should be able to have our first Neuralink in a human," Musk said during a much-awaited public update on the device.
He then added a flair by highlighting the possibility of vision restoration for the blind, saying, "Even if someone has never had vision, ever, like they were born blind, we believe we can still restore vision," There are claims that this chip serves as an interface for the human brain's motor cortex. While the FDA has not yet given the green light for sales, Musk claimed on Wednesday that the majority of the necessary paperwork had been submitted for approval to implant the device into a human being.
After several forays into and out of the court's dealings, Musk, the richest man in the world, and the owner of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, co-founder of Neuralink, and president of the Musk Foundation, added the social media giant Twitter to his pack. Also to note is that Musk had made appearances in short cameo roles in films like Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Men in Black, and The Big Bang Theory.
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