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Title: Our iPhone addiction has turned us all into cyborgs Post by: HCK on April 23, 2017, 04:05:20 pm Our iPhone addiction has turned us all into cyborgs
Very, very slow ones. But Elon Musk wants to make us faster with brain-machine interfaces. Much, much, much faster. If you're a fan of PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX founder Elon Musk's many ambitious ventures, you may have read a piece or two by Tim Urban of Wait But Why; Urban focuses on existential, humanitarian, and scientific history — what's happening, how did we get there, and where do we go from there. He also decorates his lengthy articles with delightful stick figures and graphs — because sometimes you need a bit of levity in-between understanding how artificial intelligence may be the doom or savior of us all. Urban's latest Wait But Why opus is on Musk's newest venture, Neuralink, which is ostensibly creating more advanced brain-machine interfaces. But before talking about that, the article deep dives into (surprisingly understandable) neuroscience concepts, including why the human brain is so difficult to map and comprehend. Why would we want to map... Source: Our iPhone addiction has turned us all into cyborgs (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/jbtP4S5G1KA/our-iphone-addiction-has-turned-us-all-cyborgs) |