{"id":17663,"date":"2025-02-08T07:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T06:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/elon-musk-put-a-chip-in-this-paralysed-mans-brain-now-he-can-move-things-with-his-mind-should-we-be-amazed-or-terrified\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T06:38:27","slug":"elon-musk-put-a-chip-in-this-paralysed-mans-brain-now-he-can-move-things-with-his-mind-should-we-be-amazed-or-terrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/elon-musk-put-a-chip-in-this-paralysed-mans-brain-now-he-can-move-things-with-his-mind-should-we-be-amazed-or-terrified\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man\u2019s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed – or terrified?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An accident left Noland Arbaugh paralysed, but Musk\u2019s Neuralink brain implant allows him to control computers with his thoughts. Is it a life-changing innovation that could help millions \u2013 or the start of a dystopia where a billionaire can access our thoughts?<\/p>\n

Noland Arbaugh\u2019s life changed in a fraction of a second in June 2016. He was a 22-year-old student, working at a kids\u2019 summer camp in upstate New York, when he went swimming in a lake. He can\u2019t tell me exactly what happened, but thinks one of his friends must have accidentally struck him very hard in the side of his head as they ran into the water and plunged beneath the surface.<\/p>\n

When he woke up face down in the water, unable to move or breathe, Noland immediately knew he was paralysed. But he didn\u2019t panic. He felt no fear at all, he says. \u201cYou never know what you\u2019re going to do in those high-stress situations. I found out that day that it\u2019s hard to shake me. I am very, very calm under pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nAn accident left Noland Arbaugh paralysed, but Musk\u2019s Neuralink brain implant allows him to control computers with his thoughts. Is it a life-changing innovation that could help millions \u2013 or the start of a dystopia where a billionaire can access our thoughts?
\nNoland Arbaugh\u2019s life changed in a fraction of a second in June 2016. He was a 22-year-old student, working at a kids\u2019 summer camp in upstate New York, when he went swimming in a lake. He can\u2019t tell me exactly what happened, but thinks one of his friends must have accidentally struck him very hard in the side of his head as they ran into the water and plunged beneath the surface.
\nWhen he woke up face down in the water, unable to move or breathe, Noland immediately knew he was paralysed. But he didn\u2019t panic. He felt no fear at all, he says. \u201cYou never know what you\u2019re going to do in those high-stress situations. I found out that day that it\u2019s hard to shake me. I am very, very calm under pressure.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An accident left Noland Arbaugh paralysed, but Musk\u2019s Neuralink brain implant allows him to control computers with his thoughts. Is it a life-changing innovation that could help millions \u2013 or the start of a dystopia where a billionaire can access our thoughts? Noland Arbaugh\u2019s life changed in a fraction of a second in June 2016. …<\/p>\n

Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man\u2019s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed – or terrified?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}