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    Elon Musk’s Next Wild Promise

    If someone is going to revolutionize what it means to be human, do we want it to be a tech titan?
    by Amanda Mull Jul 18, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: David McNew / Getty

    Elon Musk has a predilection for grandeur. The billionaire tech provocateur made his fortune as a founder of the revolutionary online-payments company PayPal, and since then, he has announced his intention to revolutionize cars, trains, space travel, intercontinental flight, and city driving. SpaceX, his aerospace company, has begun work on the infrastructure to beam internet access down to Earth from satellites in orbit around the planet. And this week, Musk shifted his public ambitions to his next target: the human brain.

    Neuralink, a neurotechnology company owned by Musk, crept out of the corporate that included one of the founder’s signature big promises: The company is developing a device to implant inside the brain that supposedly will allow people to control computers and other devices with their minds. At the announcement, Musk said the company is on track to begin testing the implants in human patients .

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