Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 science fiction film starring Keanu Reeves, in which the central character is a data messenger in 2021 who carries the information in his 160 GB “celebrate implant”.
Lo anterior, quizás en poco tiempo, se hará realidad con Neuralink, otra iniciativa impulsada por el vanguardista Elon Musk que en esta ocasión presentó sus avances en esta materia para el verano de 2020.
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company founded in 2016, with the aim of developing a brain-computer interface, in this first stage the interface will be aimed at treating neurological disorders.
What we see interesting in this summer 2020 presentation compared to the previous year is the evolution from the prototyping and experimentation.
Starting with the new device presented this year, the Link V0.9 we see that this new design, once implanted, will be completely hidden under the skin, it has 1024 link channels to connect with neurons, it measures just 23 mm x 8 mm, the battery lasts all day and is charged by induction, in all superior to the prototype of the previous year.
The surgical process to implant this interface will be carried out by a Surgical Robbery as they had already stated in 2019, the difference now is that the Surgical robot design has changed to a more operative and stylized model.
Even the surgical process performed by this machine is minimally invasive in comparison to surgeries of this type performed by traditional medicine.
The most interesting of all is the progress in experimental subjects, Initially, the work was carried out with laboratory rats, but already this year they are working with pigs, in fact, 3 pigs were presented at the event, one without the implant, another with an implant removed and a third with the active implant, there it was possible to compare the behavior of the animals where they all behaved healthy and awake.
Now, what's next? : Expected to enter human trials under FDA approval. once the tests are successful, the rest is history! since the mere possibility of connecting the human being with computers neurally takes us deeper into the territory of science fiction than anything else!
Much is speculated about the possibilities, but in the mouth of the creators, things have appeared such as the possibility of storing information through this device, interconnecting with equipment such as our mobile phone, controlling the mood through neural stimulation so that secrete endorphins, it is practically the materialization of ideas only seen in science fiction movies.
Even the Black Mirror series that shows possible scenarios on similar technologies now seems more materializable.
But for now, the first steps are being taken and the immediate destination of this technology once tested and approved will be to solve health problems such as:
Memory Loss, Depression, Anxiety, Hearing Loss, Insomnia, Addiction, Blindness, Extreme Pain, Paralysis, and Brain Damage among many other existing ills.
Not forgetting that from the outset the costs of treatments will be high, however, as the future reaches us with these wonders, it will be a true breath of hope to see how human effort pushes humanity to new stages.
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