In the future, people will stop using mobile phones, believes American billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk.
“In the future there will be no cell phones, but Neuralinks,” Musk wrote this Sunday on his X account, responding to the publication of another user who had asked his subscribers the question of whether they would install the Neuralink interface in their brain to let mental activity controls the cell phone.
In late January, Musk announced that the first human had received a Neuralink brain implant and was recovering well. “Initial results demonstrate promising neural spike detection,” the billionaire explained at the time via X.
The brain implant is intended to be the basis for helping paralyzed patients move their prostheses through mental activity. Likewise, it would be used to treat epilepsy, Parkinson’s or help patients who have lost their speech or hearing. The microchip, called Telepathy, identifies the groups of neurons that begin to activate when the person wants to move their limbs and is also capable of deciphering words to dictate or write them, according to the scientists.
Although Neuralink, founded in 2016, has been criticized after the deaths of several monkeys in its preliminary experiments, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light in May 2023 to to carry out its first clinical trials in humans.
