Someday you will be asked to install a brain implant to control electronics and transport with the power of thought

Will we be able to control cars and digital equipment not with gestures, not with glances, but with mental commands?

?Such ideas seemed impossible to the average person until recently, and their implementation could only be seen in science fiction action films or Hollywood adventures. And in general, ten years ago we actively used flash drives, carried players, tried to get used to GPS navigation and fast wireless Internet. But times are changing, now in the news about technologies of the near future they are constantly discussing some incomprehensible neural interfaces, “intermediary translators” between the language of the human brain and computer commands. Today we will tell you where these experiments began, what stage they are at now, and what to expect from computer-brain connections in the near future.

Table of contents

• From experiments on rabbits to the first brain interfaces
• Further development
• Can I play?
• Elon Musk and his Neuralink
• Neuralink V2
• And some more interesting facts about Neuralink

From experiments on rabbits to the first brain interfaces

Back in the second half of the 19th century, an English doctor andphysiologist Richard Keyton was instrumental in the discovery of the electrical nature of the brain in humans and animals. In August 1875, he informed the British Medical Association that he was able to detect electrical impulses on the surface of the living brains of experimental rabbits, dogs and monkeys. The experiment was described as follows: