Elon Musk Wants To Get Inside Your Brain: Salon

You may know billionaire Elon Musk for his primary ventures — that is, electric cars and exploding rockets. But he's also got a brain implant company called Neuralink that's ramping up to try clinical trials of its technology, Brett Bachman wrote for Salon.

Photo Insert: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has got a brain implant company called Neuralink that's ramping up to try clinical trials of its technology.

It's a development that's inspired much concern about our impending "Black Mirror"-esque dystopia — but Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams warns of putting the cart before this particular horse: "We need to understand that the potential of brain-computer interfaces (or brain machine interfaces) is still mostly just potential."

“And that's not to mention the fact that our world is already somewhat of a technology-driven dystopia already. We just happen to carry a big collection of our thoughts and ideas around on the outside. Our behavior is easy to track and our opinions are not at all difficult to tweak. Earlier this week, I found my way to a bar because the small device I held in my hand detected my location from outer space and told me, in the lilting Irish accent I had chosen for it, exactly how to get there and how long the journey would take. Then I came home and watched a video from a fashion designer on that same device, and now I can't stop seeing ads for sweaters. Or Houlihan's. That's just a few moments of a very typical day for a whole lot of us,” Bachman stressed.

“You don't want your mind being manipulated? The horses left that barn a long time ago when we traded our privacy for GPS and Google. The Elon Musks of the world don't have to plant a chip in your head. They're already in there,” he concluded.

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