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BRAIN AUGMENTATION. “Elon Musk started a new company, Neuralink, to do it. Facebook, at its F8 developer’s conference, showed a video of an ALS patient typing with her brain. But earlier to the game was Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur who in 2013 made a bundle by selling his company, Braintree, to Paypal for $800 million. Last year, he used $100 million of that to start Kernel, a company that is exploring how to build and implant chips into the skulls of those with some form of neurological disease and dysfunction, to reprogram their neural networks to restore some of their lost abilities.“ https://lnkd.in/d8HYsSd View in LinkedIn

STAYING CURRENT. “For humans to be relevant in a matter of decades there is no choice other than to unlock our brains and intervene in our cognitive evolution." https://lnkd.in/dnChdYu View in LinkedIn

ARM REPLACEMENT TODAY. "In February, three Austrians made headlines for having their arms removed and replaced with thought-controlled prosthetics through a new surgical procedure. They did so due to severe nerve damage that had rendered their original hands useless, making the decision highly understandable." https://lnkd.in/dv3ZSfP View in LinkedIn

ONCE SCI-FI. "Today, advances in biotechnology have shown that they’re plausible, even likely to be accomplished in the near future. In labs around the world, researchers looking for ways to help the sick and injured have stumbled onto techniques that enhance healthy animals—making them stronger, faster, smarter, and longer-lived—in some cases, even connecting their minds to robots and computers across the Internet." https://lnkd.in/evPViuJ View in LinkedIn