Elon Musk

Neuralink: Thumbs up or down so far?

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Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink is neu­ro­science the­ater (MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review):

Rock-climb with­out fear. Play a sym­pho­ny in your head. See radar with super­hu­man vision. Dis­cov­er the nature of con­scious­ness. Cure blind­ness, paral­y­sis, deaf­ness, and men­tal ill­ness. Those are just a few of the appli­ca­tions that Elon Musk and employ­ees at his four-year-old neu­ro­science com­pa­ny Neu­ralink believe elec­tron­ic brain-com­put­er inter­faces will one day bring about. [Read more…] about Neu­ralink: Thumbs up or down so far?

5 Facts You Need To Know To Understand, Navigate And Enjoy The Digital Brain Health Revolution

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Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe, now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Face­book,  are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and healthier.

What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be headed?

To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged from the recent Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit.

 

Fact 1. There are 7.5 billion human brains out there, and everyone needs help

Con­sid­er all unmet needs derived from the tra­di­tion­al phar­ma-exclu­sive approach to brain health.

Learn­ing and cog­ni­tive dis­abil­i­ties in chil­dren are grow­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly, from ADHD and OCD, to autism. The relat­ed emo­tion­al and eco­nom­ic bur­den is sub­stan­tial — yet, over 60–70% of those with treat­ment have poor out­comes, and many who need help don’t get any.

Glob­al­ly, around 350 mil­lion peo­ple suf­fer from depres­sion. Add to that sub­stance abuse, and we are talk­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions of peo­ple with­out prop­er care and very high relapse rates for the lucky ones get­ting help.

Con­cus­sions and brain impair­ments per­vade through mil­lions of vet­er­ans and high-con­tact sports prac­ti­tion­ers, yet diag­no­sis and treat­ments are elusive.

And let’s not for­get the per­fect­ly healthy. [Read more…] about 5 Facts You Need To Know To Under­stand, Nav­i­gate And Enjoy The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Revolution

Special Offer: Learn from 100+ Brain Experts, Watch 40+ Hours at the Leading Edge

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Will we soon have an “annu­al brain check-up”? Under what con­di­tions may spe­cif­ic brain training/ enhance­ment meth­ods work? Is implant­i­ng elec­trodes in one’s brain–as Elon Musk’s new ven­ture just announced–the most promis­ing way to cre­ate a brain-com­put­er inter­face? How can we har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty to rein­vent edu­ca­tion and men­tal health?

Thou­sands of pro­fes­sion­als know that Sharp­Brains’ annu­al vir­tu­al sum­mit is a valu­able resource to under­stand, nav­i­gate and apply the lat­est in brain health and brain enhance­ment. All ses­sions are record­ed, so we have over 40 hours of record­ings fea­tur­ing over 100 incred­i­ble Speak­ers who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Summits.

Now you have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to access all these ses­sion record­ings at a sub­stan­tial dis­count ($150 instead of the $465 it would cost to access them sep­a­rate­ly). This is an spe­cial pro­mo­tion valid for orders placed before May 1st, 2017. (Access pass lasts for 1‑year after pur­chase, so you’ll have plen­ty of time to watch ses­sions at your convenience)

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Elon Musk to pioneer new Inner Space Frontier via Neuralink “neural lace” technology

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Elon Musk Launch­es Neu­ralink to Con­nect Brains With Com­put­ers (The Wall Street Journal):

“Build­ing a mass-mar­ket elec­tric vehi­cle and col­o­niz­ing Mars aren’t ambi­tious enough for Elon Musk. The bil­lion­aire entre­pre­neur now wants to merge com­put­ers with human brains to help peo­ple keep up with machines. [Read more…] about Elon Musk to pio­neer new Inner Space Fron­tier via Neu­ralink “neur­al lace” technology