Source: Finance and Economics
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Actually got it!
It's not that I don't understand, the world is changing fast!
Just a few days ago, Elon Musk announced in a speech at the Wall Street Journal forum that the "brain-computer interface" device is expected to be used in humans next year to help restore full-body function in quadriplegics.
In a video interview during the meeting, Musk said:
The standards we implant with devices are higher than the FDA's requirements, and I think we have the opportunity to restore full-body function to spinal cord injury patients through Neuralink, so that people who can't walk or can't use their arms can walk naturally again.
Seeing this news, I can't help but be shocked, I believe many people will feel the same way as me!
really! Prophecy comes true!
Musk's brain-computer interface technology really has to shift from animals to humans and start the process of comprehensive commercial application.
All this must start from the first half of this year!
Yes, remember the first half of this year?
Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company founded by Musk, released a new video of 3 minutes and 28 seconds, which showed a breakthrough: a 9-year-old monkey playing an electronic table tennis game with his mind.
The monkey's skull was implanted with a chip that could be charged wirelessly, and the monkey's appearance could not see any abnormalities.
The latest research is currently using the latest Neuralink device LINK V0.9.
What is LINK V0.9 Brain-Computer Interface Technology?
Specifically, through a small surgical robot, it is safe and painless to perforate the head like a minimally invasive eye surgery, quickly implant a chip into the brain, read brain waves in real time, transmit wirelessly to the outside world, and can be controlled by a mobile phone.
1, look at it, this sensor device Link V0.9, diameter 23mm, thickness of 8mm, a coin difference size, implanted in the top of people's skulls, connected with the human brain.
After implantation, this "small coin" can wirelessly transmit brainwave data, allowing real-time transmission capabilities between brains and computers.
Unlike before, this time it is wireless transmission, the wire is connected within one centimeter of the device, and a real-time signal can be obtained in the cerebral cortex to connect with the mobile phone "Bluetooth".
What's even more amazing is that this device uses inductive charging, which only needs to be charged at night, can be used all day during the day, and can even be charged wirelessly.
2, how to implant this chip in the brain? Supporting hardware: surgical robot V2.
Look, it's the little white device on Musk's left.
Don't underestimate this small device, with this surgical robot V2, implanted with link V0.9 chip, it is very easy:
The skull is opened, a small piece of the skull is removed, electrodes and wires are implanted, and finally a Neuralink device is installed to fill the gap in the skull.
The whole process is completed within one hour and can be discharged on the day of surgery. General anesthesia is not required. As long as it is handled properly, there will be no bleeding during the operation, and there is only a small scar on the head after the operation.
Robotic surgery can bypass blood vessels without causing significant damage.
3, some people may ask: punching a hole in the brain, this is not a small thing, Musk, you are not joking, right?
Don't worry, it has already been achieved in pigs before the monkeys.
Musk once brought 3 piglets to demonstrate. The results showed that when the field worker touched its nose, the pig's nerves began to excite and the brain neurons responded.
The part pointed out in red is the brain activity signal read by Neuralink, the pig's "second brother".
Bluetooth connection!
One hour implant!
FDA certified!
If we say that before, all this was only done on animals!
And today, Musk announced: next year, this device will officially enter the human body!
The world was stunned. This is a landmark technological breakthrough that will revolutionize the way humans interact with machines, and in turn change humans and society!
In the dense clouds, the thunder of technology is brewing and generating, and a storm is coming!
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Maybe you don't know what this technology will bring us once it is used successfully.
The answer is simple, and the main ones are four points:
1, with the intention to control things: after the realization of this technology, human beings can not speak, as long as through the mind, you can control foreign objects at will, in order to control things!
For example:
Think about one day in the future, wake up in the morning, and as soon as your mind moves, the lights will turn on.
Silently in your heart, the coffee machine began to automatically heat your coffee for a long time.
If you are too lazy to do it, you can also control the mechanical arm to help you, and all of this is done by the mind to help you.
Previously, it was thought to be just a myth, but now Musk's technological breakthrough shows that it will all become a reality.
At the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, paralyzed youth Liano Pinto wore such a large, bulky exoskeleton and kicked the first goal of the World Cup through the brain-computer interface.
2, enhance the brain: through the brain-computer interface, improve the operation of the brain, so that we always feel like just slept a good awakening, energetic, focused, quick thinking, can do a thing efficiently and soberly.
At present, this work has achieved certain results. For example, there is a company called Smart Cap in San Francisco, which makes an EEG into a baseball cap. This product can be used to alleviate fatigue driving of truck drivers, improve concentration, and reduce traffic hazards.
Previously, the American ABM company trained experimenters through the EEG brain-computer interface, so that the novice learning speed was 2.3 times higher than the original.
3, lossless communication: with the brain-computer interface, humans do not use language, only rely on the brain electrical signals in the brain can communicate with each other, to achieve "lossless" brain information transmission
This brain-brain interaction, the essence of which is transmitted to each other, is the activity of neuronal swarms. Unlike the ambiguity of language and the inadequacy of words, it is a complete, 100% , information-free " comprehension " of the mind.
This is something that Facebook scientists are now working on. They want people to think about something at the same time, to spread the idea to the skin of others, so that people can "hear" the voice through the skin, and then achieve communication.
What is heart-to-heart? This is the true heart-to-heart seal!
4, transplant memory: after the realization of this technology, we can have a lot of knowledge and skills in a short period of time, and obtain superpowers that ordinary humans cannot have.
Memory transplantation is the focus of research in this area. Now, American scientists have discovered the memory code of the brain's hippocampus, and began to try to use a chip to back up the memory, and then implant the chip into another brain to achieve memory transplantation. This experiment has been successful in monkeys.
That is, if you don't know English, German, French, and other languages; implanted in the brain through this chip; you may have a lot of more memories out of thin air; you may sleep one night, and you will master five or six foreign languages;
When this technology is realized, human memory can be transplanted.
The ultimate purpose of this technology is to transmit a large amount of information and data to the brain through brain-computer interface technology, or upload the brain's consciousness to the computer, and finally realize the immortality of human consciousness and memory in the computer world.
If the experiment is successful, in the future, although a person's body dies, it can store his soul in another system, and even transfer this soul to other bodies!
You read that right, the eternal life that humanity has been seeking all along may be achieved. How incredible this is, but the various scientific and technological advances in reality are bringing us closer to this goal little by little!
Anyway, it's a brain-opening thing!
Three
A mighty upheaval has arrived!
This era is changing so fast, too fast for you to imagine. And the advancement of science and technology is constantly giving this speed a new acceleration.
Science and technology is the first productive force! No era has ever been as "a hundred flowers" as it is today; one scientific miracle after another, medical miracle after miracle has been born before our eyes!
Intentions, memory storage, memory transplantation... These miracles are but a microcosm of scientific progress!
What needs to be paid great attention to is that every major technological revolution in human history will trigger an impact on human beings themselves and even on society as a whole. The same is true of brain-computer interfaces, which may be a tsunami full of uncertainty for human society!
The invention of iron, the emergence of a traditional agricultural society, triggered a war in the age of cold weapons. In China, the war lasted from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period until the Han Dynasty, when it ended.
The invention of electricity and the emergence of industrial society sparked world wars and world wars that stained the entire first half of the twentieth century with blood.
Now, with the advancement of artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, biology and other technologies, while bringing scientific and technological benefits, it will also trigger a storm of new social changes.
If the previous technological progress only made the "richer the richer, the poor poorer"; and the sudden advances such as brain-computer interfaces may make the rich smarter, more knowledgeable, and healthier, and the poor weaker and weaker, and eventually superhuman beings.
For example, the knowledge of the entire British Museum, in the future, may not take too long to enter a person's brain through brain-computer interaction. Through the brain-computer interface, a person can also be called a superman like Iron Man.
Consider this scene: it is quite possible that in the near future, the original human being may be as weak and vulnerable as a bed bug in the face of human beings in the face of super humans. Do you think that when you flushed a bug into the sewer, there was a ripple in your heart?
Writing this, I don't know why, I suddenly remembered the opening paragraph of the novel Dickens "A Tale of Two Cities":
It's the best of times, it's the worst of times;
It's an age of wisdom, it's an age of stupidity;
It is a period of faith, it is a period of doubt;
It's a season of light, it's a season of darkness;
This is the Spring of Hope, this is the Winter of Disappointment;
People have everything in front of them, and people have nothing in front of them;
People are on the way to heaven, people are going to the gates of hell.
The future is here, and there is not much time left for mankind!
Good people, be more careful!
Thousands of mountains and rivers are always love, and it is not okay to give a "good look"