looks like #Neuralink marketing update is delayed — fortunately the written word remains a dependable technology to get stuff straight into your brain. some light reading on brain bridges: 1) why language will reinvent itself, by yours truly https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-remains-the-most-flexible-brain-to-brain-interface">https://aeon.co/essays/wh...

2) A useful overview of what& #39;s known about the tech so far, by @samuelmcurtis https://medium.com/@samuelmcurtis/all-eyes-on-brains-neuralinks-demo-and-the-future-of-brain-machine-interfaces-6ba283741d55">https://medium.com/@samuelmc...

Some historical context for the #neuralink pigs: Joseph Delgado, whose most famous demo was probably an implanted electrode he used to stop a bull (a case of direct manipulation) https://sites.google.com/site/mcrais1/delgado">https://sites.google.com/site/mcra...

Musk cleverly skirts the ethical issues involved by stressing they& #39;re working with the FDA, but some folks will be reminded of Delgado& #39;s most controversial work, Physical Control of the Mind, reviewed here #Neuralink https://science.sciencemag.org/content/169/3946/666.1">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/1...

Ah, here we go #neuralink — "speech is so very very slow”, so one dream of Musk and team is to enable "nonlinguistic consensual conceptual telepathy". Counterpoint from my @aeonmag piece upthread:

In case you& #39;ve been following this, here& #39;s an excellent thread on the progress of neuralink and the very real neuroscientific obstacles ahead https://twitter.com/_stah/status/1299664746090823680?s=19">https://twitter.com/_stah/sta...