Precision Neuroscience Gets to Hang Out on Brains Longer

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A couple of weeks ago, Neuralink revealed that it had raised another $650 million, which hiked the company’s valuation up to $9 billion. Those are both large sums.

Elon Musk’s entry into the brain computer interface (BCI) arena almost a decade ago reshaped the field in ways that could have major consequences for what all humans look like and can do in the years to come. And I don’t even think that’s hyperbolic.

Putting electrodes in brains was once an academic pursuit. It’s now a venture-backed race in much the same way that artificial intelligence is a venture-backed race. We’re going to put a lot of electrodes in and around a lot of brains over the next few years, and, if things go well, we really are going to try and turn this stuff into consumer technology, and all of this really might put people on a transhumanist curve that we can’t even fathom fully at the moment.