Forbes July 11, 2024
Topline
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink will one day bestow “cybernetic superpowers” on people and allow them to control robots with their mind, the tech billionaire claimed Thursday, offering a futuristic and unrealistic forecast for the opaque company’s next steps after he delivered a rare update and revealed plans to implant a second human patient within “the next week or so.”
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How Accurate Are Elon Musk’s Predictions?
Many of Musk’s predictions and updates are best treated with a healthy degree of skepticism. The billionaire is well known for his hyperbolic and often wildly optimistic predictions for the future directions of humanity, technology and the companies he leads and many of his past forecasts have proven to be...