Still in the year 2021, billionaire Elon Musk presented the world with one of his most innovative ideas: the Neuralink. The project is a partnership between him and eight entrepreneurs for a neurotechnology company with projects for the near future. One of them is to implement chips in human beings, however the objective is not to track or control those who will have access to the resource. Quite the opposite. Understand the proposal.
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although still a lot controversy, this technology is still in the testing phase and already has experiments on animals, since it was implanted in pigs and monkeys. A fact that, of course, generated some controversy among neuroscientists and some researchers.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Musk said he hopes the feature can be used in humans in a short time. Due to the fact that the interview was given at the end of 2021, everything indicates that this moment is very close. That's because last Wednesday, the 30th, the businessman said that clinical trials on humans should begin within six months. The device was created by Neuralink.
His first objective is to return the vision to the volunteer.
The idea is that patients with types of disabilities, especially those that limit verbal and non-verbal movements and expressions, can regain their ability to move and communicate. This, in a way, would be an incredible leap given by science that would be able to provide more quality of life for many people.
For quite some time, research into the use of technology to correct certain deficiencies have been developed by several centers around the world. Even though they are studies surrounded by many controversies and differences of opinion, many projects still follow their paths and await more conclusive answers.
For the Neuralink project, Elon Musk said he was being cautious and acting in accordance with what is right, including sending all the necessary documentation to Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which functions as a National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) in the US and is responsible for regulating various sectors.
Sought by the Reuters news agency, the agency did not answer anything about the case of the project in question.
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