The Guardian has published an article about the first person to have a chip put in his brain by Elon Musk, and asks, should we be terrified? Except, he didn't. And we shouldn't.
Surely Guardian readers know that Musk himself didn't personally implant a chip into anyone. That really does sound like a pedantic point driven by a (completely valid) dislike of the man.
If someone wrote the same article about Tim Cook with the same title would it have warranted a similar rebuttal?
P.S. not an Elon Fan, don't think he is some real life Tony Stark and actually think he is in a position right now to do some real harm.
I had assumed this was just a sub-editor creating clickbait - and that was the week of EM outrage. Didn't read the article because I'm not giving EM the oxygen of my attention.
To me, your points highlight the lack of critical and scientific thinking in our education.
In my job I source research and work with a writer to turn it into public facing information. Often I'm unpicking the writers simple but factually incorrect statements. It's quicker and easier to write attention grabbing copy. It takes more time, effort, and critical thinking to explain complicated things simply.
There's a lot of pressure to generate copy, not quality.
Oh it's been around since even before the turn of the millenium. I wrote a 2-part series on Jose MR Delgado, the pioneer of this kind of technology, who was doing remote-control electrode brain implants in the 1960s. He subsequently had his reputation unfairly tarnished and was practically chased out of the United States by the conspiracy theorist and all-round liar Peter Breggin. You might find it interesting, it's called Deliver Us From Evil on my main substack.
Great read though, thank you for your clarity and corrections!
Surely Guardian readers know that Musk himself didn't personally implant a chip into anyone. That really does sound like a pedantic point driven by a (completely valid) dislike of the man.
If someone wrote the same article about Tim Cook with the same title would it have warranted a similar rebuttal?
P.S. not an Elon Fan, don't think he is some real life Tony Stark and actually think he is in a position right now to do some real harm.
I had assumed this was just a sub-editor creating clickbait - and that was the week of EM outrage. Didn't read the article because I'm not giving EM the oxygen of my attention.
To me, your points highlight the lack of critical and scientific thinking in our education.
In my job I source research and work with a writer to turn it into public facing information. Often I'm unpicking the writers simple but factually incorrect statements. It's quicker and easier to write attention grabbing copy. It takes more time, effort, and critical thinking to explain complicated things simply.
There's a lot of pressure to generate copy, not quality.
Oh it's been around since even before the turn of the millenium. I wrote a 2-part series on Jose MR Delgado, the pioneer of this kind of technology, who was doing remote-control electrode brain implants in the 1960s. He subsequently had his reputation unfairly tarnished and was practically chased out of the United States by the conspiracy theorist and all-round liar Peter Breggin. You might find it interesting, it's called Deliver Us From Evil on my main substack.
Great read though, thank you for your clarity and corrections!