Neuralink will bring us closer together
Thu, 02 May
|Brunswick
Mental privacy is the final frontier. Are we better off without it?


Time & Location
02 May 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Brunswick, 7-11 Dawson St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
About the event
This round's topic: Neuralink will bring us closer together
Elon Musk recently announced the first results from an in-human clinical trial of Neuralink; a brain-computer interface that decodes brain waves allowing humans to control anything from a computer, prosthetic limb, to an errant robot vacuum cleaner.
Which journal did he publish this in, I hear you ask? Twitter? No, I'm not familiar with that peer reviewed science journal.
The technology is an incredible opportunity for people with paralysis to communicate and interact at a greater level with the world around them. This is very cool.
But where is this technology heading?
What access to our thoughts will this give Musk in the future? I’ve tried to block him on Twitter, and yet, he’s always in my feed. Organic intrusive thoughts are bad enough; how does one block a pop up from inside your head? What happens if governments can see…