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Rich Stanton

Oh good: Elon Musk's Neuralink gets FDA approval to put microchips in human brains

A brain shape made out of circuits and a processor.

Remember when PCs were just lovely big beige boxes that sat in the corner of the room, and you'd use them for gaming or the occasional internet session? The people of the future will look back on us like cavemen with charcoal, because in the future they're all gonna be walking around with mini-PCs in their brain matter.

That's one possible future, anyway, and the would-be pioneer (in the West, at least) is Neuralink. Elon Musk's brainchip firm has now received approval from the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to begin conducting tests on humans: The first time this will ever happen (that we know of, anyway). The cyberpunk future is now.

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