Day by day, technology allows the world to become more and more connected. But what happens when we connect to computers wirelessly through our brain? Well, just ask the billionaire entrepreneur, Elon Musk.    

Announced a few days ago, Neuralink is a medical research company that proposes neural lace technology. The use of neural laces will allow people to exchange information with machines without using physical, computer interface. Registered in July 2016, Neuralink is currently located in Palo Alto, California. While much is not known about the newly formed company, Neuralink CEO Elon Musk said that people will need to form a symbiosis with technology in order to keep up with a world run by artificial intelligence systems. At a World Government Summit in Feburary, Musk went on to state that a "merger of biological intelligence and machine intelligence" would be needed by humans to avoid becoming useless in a technologically driven world. It's apparent that Musk is looking forward into the future, and attempting to prevent the approaching rudimentary use of the human brain. Elon Musk believes that it is "critical to ensure a good future for humanity" through the technological augmentation of the brain. 

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A visionary, the Neuralink leader is no stranger to entrepreneurship. If the name sounds familiar, it can be attributed to his other well-known companies such as the aerospace exploration company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla (TSLA  ). While running an international car company and attempting to send humans to Mars, Musk leads the underground tunneling company named the Boring Company, and the vacuum train company Hyperloop. Both companies are targeted at making transportation faster and easier; Hyperloop is planned to go past the speeds of an airplane. 

Among the plethora of Musk's companies focused on the advancement of humanity, the concept of neuralink is futuristic in itself. Neuralink involves the process of neural lacing, which is the implanting of electrodes into the brain. These electrodes then allow people to upload or download their thoughts wirelessly onto a computer. The 'lacing' of the process is related to the layering of the brain with artificial intelligence. This layering is done by mesh electronics, a device that is thin enough to be injected with a needle. The mesh layer can then connect to an outside computer, facilitating the transfer of information from the brain to an outside device. In order to achieve this, researchers at Neuralink would have to figure out how brains store information; if they accomplish this, neural lacing could upload information in the correct format, so the brain could read it. Already tested on mice by a group of chemists, neural lacing incorporates itself with the very cells; in the brains of mice, cells immediately began to grow around the neural layer of artificial intelligence. This semi-mechanical system welcomed by the cells imply a hopefully future for Musk's vision of neural lacing. 

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This vision, however, does not only belong to Musk. Kernel, a firm that plans to build neural implants, is also attempting to improve cognition. Founded by October 2016 by Bryan Johnson, the business mogul who was involved in Paypal with Elon Musk. Similar to Musk's plan to fund Neuralink with his own money, Johnson recently placed $100 million USD into Kernel, asserting that "unlocking our brain is the most significant and consequential opportunity in history." 

It is believed that Neuralink, while focused on neural lacing for commercial use, will first release products to treat neurological disorders like epilepsy and depression. But until then, we are all waiting for the day where we can store our thoughts wirelessly, giving ourselves space to discover new ventures to better shape humanity.