GeekSpeak – Neuralink: Saviour or Disaster? GeekSpeak Saturday 5th September at noon SLT

Last week Elon Musk unveiled the latest plans for Neuralink, the company that plants a chip in your skull that connects your brain to a computer.  This technology promises to make the paralyzed walk and the blind see.  If it can do that it will be an amazing benefit for all disabled people.

What else will it be able to do?  Will we be able to link our brains to robots on Mars so that we can experience being there on another planet?  Will we be able to share thoughts with other people?

Are there dangers with this technology?  If a couple links their brains will they live happily ever after, or get a divorce straight away?  Will companies be able to put advertisements into your thoughts?  Will the government force all children to get a link so that they can be controlled?

Come and discuss the digitalization of your brain patterns.  It is closer than you think.  Bring your friends, with or without brains.

IM Vulcan Viper, who teaches a meditation class every Wednesday at the GeekSpeak auditorium at 1pm SLT, if you have ideas for new subjects.

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GeekSpeak SL – get ready for the neuralink- Join the Discussion May 6th at 12pm SLT

The neuralink is the latest project of Elon Musk.  It will enable your brain to upload or download from the internet.  So you would be able to create an interactive movie in your brain and stay there forever.  No need for real children or real friends, you would have virtual ones.  Would you ever want to leave?

Where will it lead?  Will we become joined together like the Borg or like the Nestor in ‘Battle beyond the Stars’?

Will people try to hack your brain?  Or will you get ads in your dreams?

And what will happen to the ‘pure’ people who never became neuralinked?

Come and discuss our digital selves and all copies of them.

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