Yo, technology. What is it all about? What does the metaverse look like in 2050? That's a hard thought

experiment, but it's probably not unreasonable to suggest that it's going to be ubiquitous and

powerful. And there is going to be a reliance on our physical bodies to engage with that system, which means that the

threshold for the desire for a failing human body to get that technology will drop and drop

and drop.

Thank you. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

As always, I am your host, Danny Fortson, the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times in this week. We're going back to one of my favorite topics, the brain, specifically

brain computer interfaces. Of course, most of us know about or have heard about Neurrelink, which is Elon Musk's startup in this whole world.

And what they have done is created a robot to drill a hole in your skull,

implant superfine electrodes into your brain,

with the ultimate goal of merging with artificial intelligence,

turning us all into cyborgs, and saving the human race.

None of that is a joke.

That is exactly what Neurrelink wants to do.

But, like most of Musk's projects, it has been super hyped, but very delayed.

And what it has got to this point thus far is it's done this with a monkey that has apparently been able to play a video game with its mind.

But he has yet, Musk has yet to implant the first device in humans.

That whole drilling a hole in the head thing, kind of a show stopper.

But that is where this week's guest comes in.

Tom Oxley is the founder of Synchron, which is a startup that has quietly beat Neurlink to the punch.

So this month, it was announced that Synchron has successfully implanted its first

brain implant in a human in New York. And the initial goal is quite simple. Synchron is focused

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