Dear Friends:
In the last few
days, a new project to connect the human brains with computers was announced in
the Silicon Valley.
Elon Musk,
co-founder of Tesla and SolarCity and founder of SpaceX, introduced to the press a startup named
Neuralink.
The new project of
Mr. Musk pursues the development of a “neural lace” technology. The mission of this
startup is to link of the human brains with computers for medical purposes and other
human goals.
Other projects with
similar intentions are conducted by Facebook and DARPA.
The first step of
Neuralink will be the implantation of tiny electrodes in human brains to heal
sick people. However, according to some stories published for the media, the
ambitions of this entrepreneur are bigger. (To remember, Mr. Musk is thinking
the idea of sending humans to Mars.)
The announcement of
Neuralink came days after that CeBIT 2017 was held at Hannover, Germany. (CeBIT is an annual world technology show
and conference organized by the Germans.)
This year, CeBIT was
excitant in speeches and announcements. One of the speakers talked about the
hacking of the heart implants that some sick people have in their body. The
title of this conference was “Could hackers break my heart via my pacemaker?”
Dr. Marie Moe, Research
Scientist and Associate Professor, SINTEF (Scandinavia), explained her own personal experience with
being the host of a vulnerable medical implant. She said that she started a
hacking project to investigate the security of her own personal critical
infrastructure.
The life of this
scientist “depends on the functioning of a medical device, a pacemaker that
generates each and every beat of her heart.”
Technology like
politics always has very exciting news.
If we analyze together the announcement of Neuralink and the
speech of Dr. Marie Moe, we can achieve to serious question mark: the “neural lace”
of Neuralink can give better life to the patients of Alzheimer, but what will
happen if somebody hacks the computers linked to your brains?
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Next, you can read some
of my last comments in the blog of the WSJ – Journal Community during the last few
days.
Domingo Trassens
WORLD RETHINK
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started in 2014 and 7900 in the previous JC.)
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MY BLOG COMMENTS
More weapons to kill
themselves!
03/29/2017 12:23:12 PM
2 Recommendations
This is a dramatic
moment for Toshiba's Westinghouse Electric.
03/29/2017 09:13:30 AM
1 Recommendation
Democrats are in a
fierce war against the Republicans and they will make all they can to block
Neil Gorsuch. This is a fact.
03/29/2017 09:10:29 AM
2 Recommendations
Posted In Westinghouse,
an Electricity Pioneer
The history of
Westinghouse Electric is an excellent example of the human energy and
intelligence that moved to the United States of America to the hill of the top nations of the world
in other times.
03/29/2017 09:00:37 AM
The mission of Neuralink looks great from the medical and
human purposes, but what will happen if somebody hacks the computers linked to
your brains?
03/29/2017
12:09:08 AM
3 Recommendations
This is nothing new. Russia
likes to act as "bully" against NATO and European countries.
03/28/2017
07:34:03 PM
3 Recommendations
Donald Trump knows that through Twitter he has the
"tool" to express what he wants, arriving to a world audience.
03/28/2017
03:22:30 PM
1 Recommendation
Posted In The
Kremlin’s Woman in Paris
Marine Le Pen will not conquer the proud heart of the France
with the Vladimir Putin's endorsement.
What kind of leader is Le Pen? It is ridiculous that she
went to Moscow asking for advising
to President Putin.
03/28/2017
12:24:17 PM
1 Recommendation
Posted In China
Drifts Into a U.S. Vacuum in Asia
Beijing takes
lead because it is acting as leader, while U.S.
is sleeping in past glories..
03/28/2017
11:56:04 AM
1 Recommendation
The crucial question is: Will Alexei Navalny surpasses all
the hurdles to be the new Russian leader?
Can Alexei Navalny survive the test of polonium and the
bullets of snipers?
In Russia, the big changes are bloody and after .a series of martyrdoms.
Russia
is not country of pacific revolutions
03/27/2017
11:23:56 PM
1 Recommendation
Posted In Bill
Gates vs. the Robots
(According to this story, Bill Gates is proposing special
new taxes for the companies that use robots in the manufacturing.)
Bill Gates can dream about an ideal world because he doesn't
suffer the hardness of the today real world.
03/27/2017
08:48:02 PM
2 Recommendations
Democrats have to change their strategy of obstruction that
will not give glories to their side.
03/27/2017
04:11:57 AM
3 Recommendations
The "souls" of the times of the Soviet
Union are fighting to comeback from the grave.
03/27/2017
12:00:17 AM
1 Recommendation
We have to hope that President Trump learns the lessons of
this failure soon.
03/26/2017
08:19:13 PM
3 Recommendations
Germans and Japanese don't sleep when they have to create
something great and they made great job in robots. This is the reason that
today the American factory floors are invaded by robots from these countries.
But the real problem is that China
is entering in the robots business using German knock-how when here we continue
sleeping in the imagination that we are the most advanced nation in all. (In
2016, they bought KUKA Robotics from Germany.)
The same is happening in the sector of drones. A lot of the
drones that today are in the American market are from China.
03/26/2017
08:00:11 PM
5 Recommendations
Posted In High
Anxiety Over Health-Care Reform (By the columnist Peggy Noonan)
Peggy: You say that health care can be a life-or-death issue
for us. Who in Washington cares
if I die or you die?
03/26/2017
12:06:43 AM
5 Recommendations
Now, everybody says that London
attacker was a bad guy, but before his attack nobody paid attention enough in
the level of his criminal behavior.
03/25/2017
10:50:25 PM
2 Recommendations
The advice of McCain is right: but if Donald Trump is unable
to build bridges with the Republicans, less with the Democrats.
03/25/2017
04:00:47 PM
2 Recommendations
Posted In Ex-CIA
Director: Mike Flynn and Turkish Officials Discussed Removal of Erdogan Foe
From U.S.
Everybody knows that Turkish President Erdogan is a
dictator. We as Americans don't have to please his evil mind.
03/25/2017
03:41:09 PM
5 Recommendations
Posted In Google’s
YouTube Has Continued Showing Brands’ Ads With Racist and Other Objectionable
Videos
Google acts with arrogance and doesn't care about the
wrong-done.
03/25/2017
08:50:41 AM
4 Recommendations
Elizabeth Holmes wants to avoid jail, offering shares of
Theranos, but she is guilty.
Theranos is the case of a technology company that played
with the health of sick people.
03/24/2017
04:51:13 PM
2 Recommendations
Europe is in the middle of the terror
war and the most valuable cities of the continent are the battlefield of the
extremists and fanatics
Terror is ending with the Europe's
beauty!
03/24/2017
09:42:33 AM
7 Recommendations
Malaysia
is territory managed by the Asian branch of the Islamic State. ISIS
is everywhere!
03/24/2017
09:22:12 AM
2 Recommendations
Posted In The
Freedom-From-Reality Caucus
It is good that some Republicans think for themselves and
they do not follow others as naive lambs. This is like the democracy grows.
They are not killing the new version of “ObamaCare”. They
are asking for a better project.
03/24/2017
09:11:19 AM
3 Recommendations
Venezuela
is a mess without end. But the Venezuelans have to find its destiny by itself.
During decades they committed a long series of mistakes in
political issues due to their arrogance and corrupt political culture.
03/24/2017
09:05:46 AM
1 Recommendation
Khalid Masood: British-born but with non-British name!
03/23/2017
06:13:55 PM
5 Recommendations
Nothing new! These practices were very common in the
countries that were part of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
Ronald Reagan died with the perception that he demolished
the Iron Curtain and ended the Cold War, but through real facts we see that the
Soviet power remains under different forms.
03/23/2017
05:45:50 PM
3 Recommendations
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SOURCES:
1) External Sources:
Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Twitter and PBS NewsHour.
2) Own Sources: My
own research for previous publishing projects like TTT of Comlab Corp and
others.
3) I am press guest of CeBIT (|Hannover, Germany) since 2014.
Website: http://world-rethink.blogspot.de/
