{"id":47273,"date":"2021-10-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/elon-musk-le-singe-et-les-trois-cochons-une-fable\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T23:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:29:15","slug":"elon-musk-le-singe-et-les-trois-cochons-une-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/elon-musk-le-singe-et-les-trois-cochons-une-fable\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, the Monkey and the Three Pigs: A Transhumanist Fable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'>In a video posted online in April, then in a presentation delivered in late August of 2021, the billionaire Elon Musk, whose futuristic exploits and projects attract constant comment (SpaceX, Tesla), laid out the advances made by his neurotechnology start-up Neuralink. The aim was to showcase the progress made by the brain-machine interface developed by Neuralink, particularly in the form of a highly miniaturized brain implant. As Philippe Menei demonstrates here, the technology is not in itself particularly new, but its miniaturization may open up new vistas. The intentions expressed by Musk \u2014 namely, his aim of turning this into a mass market technology that is implantable and \u2018explantable\u2019 at will and capable, for example, of becoming an \u2018accessory\u2019 to video games \u2014 raise significant concerns. It would be a case of leaping from technologies initially dedicated to solving specific medical problems (motor or sensory disabilities) to quasi-\u2018demedicalized\u2019 mass-market implants flirting dangerously with transhumanism. This opinion piece is a wake-up call against the ever clearer risks of a shift from the \u2018repaired\u2019 to the \u2018enhanced human\u2019.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video posted online in April, then in a presentation delivered in late August of 2021, the billionaire Elon Musk, whose futuristic exploits and projects attract constant comment (SpaceX, Tesla), laid out the advances made by his neurotechnology start-up Neuralink. The aim was to showcase the progress made by the brain-machine interface developed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/elon-musk-le-singe-et-les-trois-cochons-une-fable\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[197,1325,1324,14],"tags":[210,212],"keyword":[1272,962,1298,1189,1238],"class_list":["post-47273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum-en","category-revue-futuribles-en","category-revue-futuribles","category-tribune","tag-science-et-technique-en","tag-societe-en","keyword-biologie-aliments-sante-en","keyword-biotechnologie-en","keyword-cerveau-en","keyword-cybernetique-en","keyword-societe-et-individu-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72801,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47273\/revisions\/72801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47273"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=47273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}