Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Recruiting a Clinical Trial Director to Oversee Testing in Humans

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink company seems to be advancing closer to testing its brain-computer interface technology in humans with the posting of a new job listing. Neuralink is now recruiting for a clinical trial director who will “work closely with some of the most innovative doctors and top engineers, as well as working with Neuralink’s first Clinical Trial participants!”



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Neuralink is a team of exceptionally talented people. We are creating the future of brain-machine interfaces: building devices now that will help people with paralysis and inventing new technologies that will expand our abilities, our community, and our world.Our goal is to build a system with at least two orders of magnitude more communication channels (electrodes) than current clinically-approved devices. This system needs to be safe, it must have fully wireless...
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I predict them getting in trouble with FDA.

Tech companies usually do, because they simply do not have it in their culture to operate in regulated industries. They operate by the "better to ask forgiveness than permission" mindset. That might work in consumer devices, but when it comes to medical devices (good luck getting a brain implant to not fall under medical regulations) that mindset lands you in prison.

I'm surprised no one got walked out in cuffs when FDA laid the smack down on 23 and Me.

Anyway, when it happens, I will come back and quote this post and gloat :p
 
I bet anime fans around the world are hoping this works and we get a Sword Art online setup. ;)
 
Dan_D said:
Ugh.....I wish I could forget that movie.
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MadMummy76 said:
LOL, I've seen it when I was 11 or 12, and I think I really liked it, but never rewatched it since.
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It gets even worse. I'm not sure why but I came across a review for a sequel recently, yep someone actually greenlit one, and the review was just as painful to read as watching the first one.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
It gets even worse. I'm not sure why but I came across a review for a sequel recently, yep someone actually greenlit one, and the review was just as painful to read as watching the first one.
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Oh, there is more than one sequel to it. Spoiler alert: They aren't as good as the first one. Let that sink in.

I just checked and I thought there was a third one. Apparently there was at one time a third one in development. I do remember the 2nd one well enough to know it sucks. It used to come on cable TV all the time.
MadMummy76 said:
LOL, I've seen it when I was 11 or 12, and I think I really liked it, but never rewatched it since.
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Like Hackers and a bunch of other computer themed movies from the era, it hasn't aged well. The more you know about computers the worse your disdain for films like that gets. That's my experience anyway.
 
Dan_D said:
Oh, there is more than one sequel to it. Spoiler alert: They aren't as good as the first one. Let that sink in.

I just checked and I thought there was a third one. Apparently there was at one time a third one in development. I do remember the 2nd one well enough to know it sucks. It used to come on cable TV all the time.

Like Hackers and a bunch of other computer themed movies from the era, it hasn't aged well. The more you know about computers the worse your disdain for films like that gets. That's my experience anyway.
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Johnny M was o.k. It at least a some semblance of plausibility with what he put in his head. I could only imagine what a memory leak under those circumstances would be like. But, yeah, I wholeheartedly agree, a lot of that stuff was tuff to stomach then and now is pure torture. I feel like Sheldon trying to exercise self-control when something idiotic happens.
 
MadMummy76 said:
Lawnmower man intensifies.
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Dan_D said:
Ugh.....I wish I could forget that movie.
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I never actually saw it. I remember the hype being about how cool virtual reality was or something like that.

It was reportedly based on a Stephen King short story, but I remember being told that it really just stole the title and nothing else from King's work.
 
Dan_D said:
Oh, there is more than one sequel to it. Spoiler alert: They aren't as good as the first one. Let that sink in.

I just checked and I thought there was a third one. Apparently there was at one time a third one in development. I do remember the 2nd one well enough to know it sucks. It used to come on cable TV all the time.

Like Hackers and a bunch of other computer themed movies from the era, it hasn't aged well. The more you know about computers the worse your disdain for films like that gets. That's my experience anyway.
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I love hackers - it’s even better now than it was 20 years ago.
 
Zarathustra said:
I never actually saw it. I remember the hype being about how cool virtual reality was or something like that.

It was reportedly based on a Stephen King short story, but I remember being told that it really just stole the title and nothing else from King's work.
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It was based on a Stephen King story but diverged from his work so much that Stephen King actually sued them to get his name removed from the film. He won the case, although the damage had been done as some of the home video copies still have his name on them. He won damages as a result of that.
Endgame said:
I love hackers - it’s even better now than it was 20 years ago.
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Like hell it is. It was terrible then and its much worse now. It has aged like sour milk in the Arizona sun.
 
Dan_D said:
It was based on a Stephen King story but diverged from his work so much that Stephen King actually sued them to get his name removed from the film. He won the case, although the damage had been done as some of the home video copies still have his name on them. He won damages as a result of that.
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Daaaaaaang, I didn't know any of that!
 
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