{"id":441793,"date":"2020-08-31T16:56:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/elon-musk-compares-neuralink-to-a-black-mirror-episode.php"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:56:44","slug":"elon-musk-compares-neuralink-to-a-black-mirror-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/elon-musk-compares-neuralink-to-a-black-mirror-episode.php","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Compares Neuralink to \u201ca \u2018Black Mirror\u2019 Episode\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2020\/08\/neural4-300x167.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elon Musk just compared his secretive brain-computer interface startup Neuralink to the dystopian science fiction show \" black mirror. style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Black Mirror<\/h2><p>During Elon Musk&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/elon-musk-neuralink-live-pigs\">live event about his secretive startup Neuralink<\/a> on Friday night, the eccentric billionaire made a surprising comparison &mdash; invoking the dystopian science fiction show &ldquo;Black Mirror.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The remark came when he was replying to an audience question about whether the technology could eventually allow users to save and replay memories.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Yes, I think in the future you&rsquo;ll be able to save and replay memories,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I mean, this is obviously sounding increasingly like a &lsquo;Black Mirror&rsquo; episode. But I guess they&rsquo;re pretty good at predicting.&rdquo;<\/p><h2>Entire History<\/h2><p>The question did bring to mind the &ldquo;Black Mirror&rdquo; episode &ldquo;The Entire History of You,&rdquo; which features characters who are able to record and review all their memories &mdash; with disastrous consequences.<\/p><p>After his meditation about &ldquo;Black Mirror,&rdquo; Musk went on to speculate that the technology could eventually be used for mind transfer.<\/p><p>&ldquo;You could upload, you could basically store your memories as a backup, and restore the memories, and ultimately you could potentially download them into a new body or a robot body,&rdquo; Musk said. &ldquo;The future&rsquo;s going to be weird.&rdquo;<\/p><p><strong>More on Neuralink:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/elon-musk-neuralink-live-pigs\"><em>Elon Musk: We&rsquo;ve Already Implanted Neuralink in Live Pigs<\/em><\/a><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-neuralink-black-mirror\">Elon Musk Compares Neuralink to &ldquo;a &lsquo;Black Mirror&rsquo; Episode&rdquo;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>View original post here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-neuralink-black-mirror\" title=\"Elon Musk Compares Neuralink to &ldquo;a &lsquo;Black Mirror&rsquo; Episode&rdquo;\">Elon Musk Compares Neuralink to &ldquo;a &lsquo;Black Mirror&rsquo; Episode&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Black Mirror During Elon Musk\u2019s live event about his secretive startup Neuralink on Friday night, the eccentric billionaire made a surprising comparison \u2014 invoking the dystopian science fiction show \u201cBlack Mirror.\u201d The remark came when he was replying to an audience question about whether the technology could eventually allow users to save and replay memories. \u201cYes, I think in the future you\u2019ll be able to save and replay memories,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, this is obviously sounding increasingly like a \u2018Black Mirror\u2019 episode.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/elon-musk-compares-neuralink-to-a-black-mirror-episode.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}