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How Elon Musk Plans to Turn Humans Into Robots

Elon Musk hopes to top his self-driving cars with brain implants that will store your dreams
Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., gestures as he speaks during a news conference in Fremont, California, on September 29, 2015.
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Elon Musk wants to get inside your head. In April, the Silicon Valley billionaire to launch Neuralink—a company dedicated to developing a brain-to-machine interface to cure brain ailments like paralysis and memory problems and help people compete with robots when the artificial intelligence revolution makes human brains obsolete. Musk says this will be accomplished by tiny electrodes into the brain—allowing for things like downloading and uploading memory and casual brain-to-brain

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