The First Person to Get Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink is on a mission to enable humans to communicate with computers using their thoughts. Now they have successfully implanted their device in a human.. WSJ's Rolfe Winkler explores the new technology and speaks to Noland Arbaugh, Neuralink's first participant. Further Reading: - Elon Musk’s Neuralink Shows First Patient Using Its Brain Implant - Elon Musk’s Neuralink Gets FDA Green Light for Second Patient, as First Describes His Emotional Journey Further Listening: - Elon Musk's 'Demon Mode' - Elon Musk on 2024 Politics, Succession Plans and Whether AI Will Annihilate Humanity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi this is Nolan.
0:07.0	Nolan.
0:08.0	Hi Nolan, it's Rolf Winkler from the Wall Street Journal.
0:09.8	How are you?
0:10.8	Hi Rolf, how are you doing man?
0:12.4	I'm good.
0:13.4	I'm great.
0:14.4	Last week, our colleague Rolf Winkler spoke to Nolan to Arba.
0:20.4	Eight years ago, Nolan had a serious accident in a lake.
0:24.0	He described he was running into the water with some friends.
0:29.0	He recalls sort of jumping into the water,
0:32.0	and then the next thing he knew he was not moving and he thought for a second he was going to
0:38.4	drown and he almost did drown then he was pulled out of the water.
0:43.0	Nolan had suffered a severe spinal cord injury.
0:46.0	And it left him with, you know, very little, basically no function below his shoulders.
0:53.0	Since the accident, Nolan, who's 30, has been living with his parents,
0:58.0	and has had to rely on them for just about everything.
1:01.0	For eating, for getting in bed, for all kinds of things going to the bathroom.
1:08.0	You're basically highly dependent on caregivers, and it's very difficult in that position to live an independent life, which is something
1:17.0	that he dreams about, right? It's something we all take for granted.
1:22.4	But a few months ago, a technological innovation changed Nolan's life.
1:27.0	He was the first person to have a chip implanted into his brain by Neurolink,
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