The new technological wonder and the fine and dangerous border of great temptations – 2024-02-21 05:13:06

The first person to have a Neuralink chip implanted in his brain appears to have fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using his mind. According to Reuters, this was announced by Elon Musk, who created the Neuralink company. This information is essentially about a new stage of the global technological revolution, which on the one hand opens a new era of human development and capabilities, but on the other hand contains really enormous risks from the point of view of human development prospects.

On January 28, the neurotechnology company Neuralink implanted a neurochip in the human brain for the first time. Now, after about three weeks, the first result is announced. And that result looks wonderful. Elon Musk announces that using a chip to perform actions with the power of the brain will help people who have lost limbs. And it’s a truly humane technological solution. On the other hand, it is not difficult to imagine what dangerous actions can be performed on different scales by implanting chips in people.

And this is where the world crosses the extremely fine line of technological development, the possibilities of the technological revolution, and possible terrible consequences. And one thing is without doubt that this process, this revolution is unstoppable, and therefore, this delicate border is only further left. and this will raise the question of how humanity will manage and maintain that border so that it is not “crossed” by dangerous, even terrible risks. Today, states and societies are focused on the issues of inviolability or expansion of state borders in their security issues, while parallel to this, the issue of border, its management, and the issue of ensuring its security is maturing due to the technological revolution described above and its dangerous consequences.

There is no doubt that technologies will be used not only to meet the needs of human development, but also to serve the goals of human vices, including the struggle for money and power. The management of this problem is a global challenge for all humanity, and the most dangerous thing today is that this challenge is unfolding in a world where today there is a world war and the collapse of order, destabilization, in a certain sense, anarchy. And the question arises as to whether humanity is capable of managing the increasing technological challenges in that collapse mode, especially as the temptation to pit them against each other in a collapse, world war mode grows. Here is also the motive that made Elon Musk the object of attention of the managers of superpowers and power centers.