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What If You Connected Your Brain to a Computer?

At the recent Code Conference, Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk touched on a number of projects he’s working on — and one that he might which involved the human brain.

Said Musk: “Something I think is going to be quite important — I don’t know of a company that’s working on it seriously — is a neural lace.”

Neural lace is, put simply, a way to interface computer electronics with the human brain.

Gizmodo explains the recent advances:

A group of chemists and engineers who work with nanotechnology published a paper this month in Nature Nanotechnology about an ultra-fine mesh that can merge into the brain to create what appears to be a seamless interface between machine and biological circuitry. Called “mesh electronics,” the device is so thin and supple that it can be injected with a needle — they’ve already tested it on mice, who survived the implantation and are thriving.

If he sees no one doing the necessary innovation, Musk said he might: “Somebody’s got to do it. If somebody doesn’t do it, then I think I should do it.”