Noland Arbaugh was a 22-year-old student when an accident changed his life forever. Swimming with a group of friends, he was already in the head and black. He was pulled out of the water, and when he walked around, it was clear that the damage to his spinal cord meant all the movements under his shoulders.
A proven Christian, Arbaugh dealt Jenny Kleeman Says Helen Pidd. However, the opportunity came to have an implant that deserves his brain that will allow him to directly contact a computer. He jumped on the opportunity. The operation brought the real risk, but he said that thinking that things would be able to move things to a screen with his mind pushed him.
And it worked. Arbaugh soon became able to play games, texts, whatsapp and have a full online life using only his brain. It is surprising that the Neurink company of Elon Musk is not the only one conducting such experiments. And Arbaugh is not the only person to have a brain-computer interface. But Musk’s ambitions are wider. He is looking to combine the person and the machine. If he succeeded what could be the consequences?
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