The Wave is Coming
/You may have seen Elon Musk’s recent announcement of Telepathy.
In short, Neuralink has moved into humans with testing of its N1 chip to restore speech and movement to those who have lost these functions due to paralysis.
ELON MUSK AIMS TO BE IN 30,000 PEOPLE WITH TELEPATHY, NEURALINK’S NEW NEURAL IMPLANT, BY 2030.
“With a direct neural interface, we can improve the bandwidth between your cortex and your digital tertiary layer by many orders of magnitude,” Musk said in 2021. “I’d say probably at least 1,000, or maybe 10,000, or more.”
Having received FDA’s green light to to move into humans, Musk says he aims to implant the N1 in 30,000 humans by 2030. His ultimate goal is to produce a “whole-brain” AI interface that enables us to better collaborate with, and compete with, AI-enabled robots. He thinks he can achieve this by 2045.
The Wave is coming. That’s what Mustafa Suleyman calls it. He says we’re approaching a critical threshold where the integration of AI in our daily lives, alongside advancements in quantum computing, synthetic biology, and more, will change everything.
This wave promises immense prosperity but also threatens the very foundation of global order, challenging the nation-state system and posing existential dilemmas between achieving unprecedented advancements and facing the risk of overbearing surveillance and loss of control.
We all must augment ourselves, says Stanford futurist Bob Johansen.
"The big story over the next decade is not computers replacing people. The big story is people and computers doing things together that have never been done before."
“We live in “VUCA world,” he adds, employing the military acronym that stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous.
"If you're not augmented, you're going to be out of the game.”
He continues:
“I am convinced that ten years from now most of us will be cyborgs. Most of us will be augmented in some way. The question is how we want to be augmented. And how can we extend that question to better understand the future and, more importantly, make better decisions in the present?”
Amen.
