Elon Musk Wants To Stick Microchips In Your Brain That Let You Save And Replay Memories

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Elon Musk recently founded a company called Neuralink, and it's working on brain chips that'll let you record and playback your memories. Sound familiar? It should - it's basically the plot of The Entire History of You, a Black Mirror episode from 2011.

The episode is about a new technology that records people's memories, letting them re-watch them on command. But with it being Black Mirror, there's a dystopian twist and now that dystopian twist is being brought into the real world as Elon Musk is nearing human trials. Only earlier this week, Neuralink began hiring for a clinical trial director.

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"In the future, you'll be able to save and replay memories," Musk said in a Neuralink presentation. "You could potentially download them into a new body or into a robot body." But there are some less-dystopian positives that the chip is aiming for such as helping with blindness, hearing loss, and paralysis. Or you can control your phone with your brain, swiping endlessly on TikTok without even moving your finger.

"As the clinical trial director, you'll work closely with some of the most innovative doctors and top engineers, as well as working with Neuralink's first clinical trial participants," the job listing reads. "You will lead and help build the team responsible for enabling Neuralink's clinical research activities and developing the regulatory interactions that come with a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment."

Already, the chips have been used in monkeys during tests where they played video games, but Musk wants to bring it to humans; "I think we have a chance with Neuralink to restore full-body