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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElon Musk wants to ditch headphones for a music streaming brain chip
Musk plans to develop the new brain chip through his startup company Neuralink.
Besides being a father to his newborn son X Æ A-Xii with Grimes, Musk is currently developing life-changing technology. On July 19, he confirmed on Twitter his plans to develop the music streaming implant.
He sent out a tweet encouraging tech engineers to apply to work at his company Neuralink and then confirmed the brain chip plans to a curious follower.
Musk is giving a Neuralink update on Aug. 28. According to TechCrunch, the startup aims to develop computer-brain interfaces for the explicit purpose of helping humans keep pace with advanced artificial intelligence.
Neuralink plans to implant the music streaming technology into a surgical robot that implants gossamer-thin wires, thinner than human hair, into a persons brain. An external processing unit is then placed behind the ear.
https://www.altpress.com/news/elon-musk-music-brain-chip/
Why do I picture the end of Kingsman: The Secret Service happening in real life?
keepthemhonestO
(252 posts)plus I love music and all but picturing the glitch where the music won't turn off! yikes
Initech
(100,202 posts)keepthemhonestO
(252 posts)I am sure there would be some sort of tracking thing in there too. I'll pass!
MineralMan
(146,371 posts)Oof!
Initech
(100,202 posts)MineralMan
(146,371 posts)No thanks!
BannonsLiver
(16,577 posts)That's exactly it.
Initech
(100,202 posts)2naSalit
(87,201 posts)Peacetrain
(22,902 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)My apple AirPods were amazing when I got them more than a year ago. Now they drop the bluetooth connection regularly, fail to connect, lose a charge......
I would love a permanent hardwired speaker in my brain. Imagine the tactical communication applications....
But it would be shit in two years and we'd all look crazy, tapping on the sides of our heads for a reset.
Initech
(100,202 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Love it.
grumpyduck
(6,321 posts)You too will be assimilated.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Rather than the ham-handed dystopian novels we've all... well, 'assimilated' into a pretense of reality we believe more than the real thing.
ProfessorGAC
(65,647 posts)Although, a Borg would be a super cool Halloween costume. Heavy, but cool!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 23, 2020, 01:35 PM - Edit history (1)
I wouldn't trust my head meat to that megalomaniac Musk no matter how advanced or cool it is.
In fact, I am dissapointed that he is the one leading the innovations on this. Will he move the service to another head and leave you lobotomized if you don't agree with his terms?
grumpyduck
(6,321 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)bedazzled
(1,773 posts)No thanks
Initech
(100,202 posts)It ended with the world's elite all losing their heads (literally) in a colorful, fiery explosion.
bedazzled
(1,773 posts)Perversely satisfying ending!
Initech
(100,202 posts)bedazzled
(1,773 posts)That was the first movie? I try and be a Buddhist but sometimes i fail miserably
Initech
(100,202 posts)I will be interested in seeing the prequel when / if it comes out later this year.
bedazzled
(1,773 posts)the good old days. Checked out "mars attacks" the other day to see satisfying scenes with congress. "For some picky reason, the Secret Service don't want the executive branch... ...and the legislative branch in the same room at the same time."
jaxexpat
(6,940 posts)I have all the music I need in my head already.
And. I wonder about volume control.
rzemanfl
(29,589 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I think not.
SunSeeker
(51,936 posts)hunter
(38,383 posts)I don't need more.
MissMillie
(38,639 posts)All the nut jobs out there insisting a C-19 vaccine is all part of some deep-state push to put chips in our bodies.
ismnotwasm
(42,042 posts)I wont see medical nanotechnology or body modification at the level predicted in my lifetime though
ornotna
(10,829 posts)It's your phone company too!
Iggo
(47,640 posts)brush
(54,085 posts)Demsrule86
(68,977 posts)brooklynite
(95,254 posts)Silent3
(15,497 posts)...from something so invasive, and I certainly wouldn't be in a rush to be the first on the block with a brain chip.
Provide me with something that's proven safe and does a lot more than streaming music... like enhanced memory, quick access to huge repositories of information just by thinking about what I want to know, communication, Google-glass-like information about my local environment, etc... then you'd pique my interest.
And, of course, many advances in security, not just medical advances, would have to be made before I'd consider it safe.
Sadly, however, getting close to 60 years old, I sincerely doubt such technology will be available in my lifetime.
For those who may live to see such a day arrive, I can see for now that a whole lot of people think it demonstrates Great Wisdom to completely dismiss ideas like this out-of-hand, as if never, ever trusting technology like this is the only possibly safe way to go.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,388 posts)onethatcares
(16,249 posts)I get to do the install. What could possibly go awry??
Doodley
(9,207 posts)to buy products? Telling you who to vote for? What's to stop the "voice from God" app? Or a Manchurian candidate? Maybe we already have that last one?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,241 posts)Calculating
(2,957 posts)I will not have 'neurolink implants' in my brain.
icymist
(15,888 posts)miyazaki
(2,273 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,120 posts)You want to put a chip in your brain? Go right ahead. I'll stick with headphones, thank you very much.