Neuralink Thoughts

by Dustin

Neuralink is aiming to integrate your mind with technology.

As someone who has been practically obsessed with anything and everything related to technology since a young age, this excites me.  I know a lot of people will be very cautious and skeptical, and they have every right to be.  But I can't help but get giddy at the thought of becoming part of technology like some sort of cyborg cyberpunk being.

Assuming this technology is pulled off without a hitch (I doubt it will go that way), then we could have an enormous change in the way humans function.

I already thought we were making great strides with technology, but this goes the extra mile.  Something such as Neuralink would have a monumental snowball affect on the advancement of technology and the human race as a whole.

I can already imagine a society where having a Neuralink implant would be as common as cell phones.  I can also imagine the struggle that would ensue when trying to enforce regulations.

For example, let's consider something like esports.

Esports still has a long way to go, but currently there are tournaments where teams are competing for millions of dollars.  Neuralink could potentially be used in a similar manner to athletes utilizing performance enhancing substances.  For example, imagine an esports player with a Neuralink implant who is able to essentially install cheating software into his brain.  Perfect control of their hand for aimbot levels of accuracy in a shooting game.

How do you regulate that?  How can you even tell if someone was utilizing such a software?

A situation like that sounds kind of silly in the grand scheme of things, but when you consider the millions of dollars on the line, it becomes a much more serious matter.

That example was something that I consider relatively harmless, at least in comparison to the other possibilities.

I'm talking about super cyber soldiers.

Beefed up Neuralink enhanced killing machines.

War would change drastically.  Soldiers with perfect, deadly accuracy when shooting.  Soldiers with reaction times much faster than the average human.

It becomes a little scary to think about.  I fear that soon it will no longer be just a thought or a "what if," but reality.

We have no idea what a future with Neuralink holds and, because of that, we need to implement proper regulations and software restrictions to mitigate it as much as we can.

Notice how I said mitigate and not stop.  Once a software like this is widely available to everyone, hackers can and will find a way to circumvent these restrictions.

Especially when said hackers are motivated by money offered up by governments that want to have an edge in future wars.

I would be curious if some sort of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) gun could be created in order to subdue criminals utilizing Neuralink for nefarious purposes.

I do have to admit that all of this, good or bad, sounds really cool to me.  But I would be lying if I said I wasn't also terrified.