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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

THE DAWN OF AUGMENTED HUMANITY

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

With Elon Musk announcing the first human has had his Neuralink device implanted in their brain, we do a deep dive into the history of implantable technology. From its CIA and military roots to the current developers whose shocking admissions should cause us all to pause. Jefferey and Del also look at the new Apple Vision Pro and its possible implications on our society.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Apple just released its Apple Vision Pro and you can see here by some of this video we're showing

0:06.8

it basically allows your reality whatever you're seeing to become your desktop so you can

0:11.2

make a computer screen out of your home out of your your experience. The only problem is you have these electrified ski goggles attached to your face the whole time and that's how you're controlling things and seeing things.

0:28.0

But for the people with ADHD, this is probably going to be really great.

0:32.0

But this week something also happens.

0:34.8

So these have been now put out onto the streets and it got kind of weird.

0:39.0

We're starting to see a new type of human and it looks like this. Oh, Oh, Oh, I'm not. The You know how you're ever going to get those first people to decide to sign up on a

1:59.0

rocket ship going to Mars like a one-way ticket. I think they just convinced me I may want to be

2:03.8

on those rockets I am not ready to live in that world that is going to drive me

2:08.9

crazy it's already hard enough to deal with the people that are talking themselves that you realize you know oh they have earbuds in now we're going to watch this going on everywhere we go people standing in your way like totally you know consumed by a video game they're playing standing in the way of

2:24.4

a stairway or a elevator or anything you're trying to do in your normal life.

2:31.1

For the people wearing it, forget about situational awareness.

2:34.1

Like, Apple needs to come out with an app or a setting for like, I'm gonna get robbed in a second,

2:38.7

so maybe help me out.

2:40.0

Right.

2:40.6

No one's gonna see that coming with those goggles on.

2:43.0

So most of us have lived long enough to see this very rapid progression from the handheld devices,

2:49.5

even little laptop computers, to wearable devices, to now we're in the section of

2:54.5

implantable devices so you have this tech marching forward trying to get closer

2:58.6

and closer to our bodies and now we're at the point where we first are now

3:02.2

injecting it into our bodies.

3:03.6

This is Elon Musk tweet from last week.

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