this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
-24 points (26.0% liked)
Technology
78121 readers
1835 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
What’s the business model?
Looks at it loosely: Well it looks like cool tech, and the first to offer it might have a new market all alone and can earn money and....
puts on tin hat have you looked around lately? Being able to directly access brains and probably inject God knows what signals to maybe be able to alter behavior of people and/or literally brainwash them is a sure way to get funding in late stage capitalism. [They] just want to be on the "correct side" of this. [They] just want control!
Sell brain-computer interfaces to people. I'm not saying that Neuralink will ever get there or that it's a good idea but the goal is to improve on the way we communicate with computers. My guess is that Elon's vision is some Neuralink clinics that for small price drill a hole in your skull and implant a chip. The $9B valuation is obviously just pure fantasy at this point and the $600m invested is probably from some billionaires that don't know what to invest in anymore.
So, no business model.
Is the sun a business?
So Neuralink isn’t a commercial company?