Tucker Carlson on meeting Klaus Schwab: “He’s a total moron, he’s like 100 heads old and has no idea what’s going on”
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The Neuralink thing isn't really that far fetched. Tucker's acting like it is, but the concept of a cyborg has been around for longer than I have. Star Trek fans will recognize the Borg, a dystopian vision of the concept from the 80s, but anyone who's been in medicine understands what prostheses are and the desire to make better ones to give people back functions they've lost.
The mind-machine interface has been a subject of study for at least 15 years. I can't say if it's longer. That's just when I first read a paper from a team working on the idea.
Like any technology, the morality of it is defined by the way we use it. It is a tool and like all tools, you can use them for good or for evil. Even a simple pencil. With it, you could write the plays of Shakespeare or draw beautiful works of art... or you could jab it through someone's eye into their brain and become a murderer.
People think you can stop progress. You can't. Someone will develop this technology because those good uses for it compel the research. Help a mute to speak. Help a paralytic to walk again. Create the technology to make a prosthetic arm that can feel and fingers that can grasp delicately as we do without thinking. Combat veterans alone provide enormous demand for such services, let alone the kids who get their legs blown off by land mines, or the workers with industrial accidents, etc. This, paired with AI, will be transformative technology. I can't promise you a time-frame. We all know the joke about cold fusion being 30 years away, but it will happen because people want it. Yes, some defense contractor is going to weaponize it to make super soldiers. At some point, you'll be told if you want to fly a plane, you'll need a mind-machine interface to control a drone fleet with your mind. The Pentagon will say the technology adds lethality to the soldier. The politicians funding them will tell you they need it to preserve democracy.
Don't call Klaus Schwab an idiot. He's not. He's evil. He's the kind of guy who sells you the pretty picture knowing damned well he has ulterior uses for that shiny new technology. Tucker likes to mock these people as a way of taking the piss out of them. I don't think we ought to underestimate this man.