Presentation about transhuanism

So today I’m gonna talk about the transhumanism, and to illustrate my comments, I’ll present the company neuralink founded by Elon Musk. So first of all I’m gonna define the transhumanisme, then I’ll make a short presentation of Elon musk for some people who don’t know him (every body know this man I hope? ). And then I’m gonna a talk about the the company.

1) transhumanism is an international philosophical movement that advocates the improve of human through technology. There are three main aspects: the lengthening of the life span (or even the imoratility, with nanotechnology), The prosthetic increase (prosthesis and implant to improve intelligence, strength, vision, speed, ...) and Cognitive enhancement: be smarter, creative this is what we will see with neuralink.

it is a very fanciful vision like in science fiction movies but this a very actual topic and that will be possible in a few years, even if a lot of problematic and ethic question arises on the subject

2) Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born American inventor, entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 which later became PayPal, SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003 and more recently Neuralink (which will interested us) . Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company Zip2, and became billionar 10 years later when he sold paypal to ebay for 1,5 billion of dollars. By the way, for the character of tony stark John Favreau the director of the movie Iron man, says to be inspired by Elon musk

3) Neuralink Corporation is an American neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk and others. The company's headquarters are in San Francisco;[5] it was started in 2016 and was first publicly reported in March 2017.

the three main objectives of the startup are to understand and treat brain diseases like Parkinson’s disease or epilepsy , to preserve and improve our own brain and create a better future. (video) Neuralink's medical applications could soon solve visual or hearing Impairments.

At the present time, The company develops electronic components that can be integrated into the brain, for example to increase memory or control computers and software. Elon Musk explained that they already grafted sensors into the brain of a monkey to allow him to mentally control a computer. And a project for implantation of micro-electrodes in a paralyzed person, could be experimented before the end of 2020.