Elon Musk's masterplan for humanity's future is beyond your wildest sci-fi dreams

Elon Musk is about to become a CEO of another company. Yes, the guy who's already the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX will take on lead duty at a new company called Neuralink, which (ultimately) aims to merge the human brain with a computer. 

We knew a tiny little bit about Musk's new venture thanks to last month's WSJ report, but now, WaitButWhy's Tim Urban has an in-depth report on what Neuralink is about. 

And we do mean in-depth. This thing is colossal, starting with a course (I wish I could say "short course" but this part of the text alone has more than 10,000 words) on the evolution of the brain and human invention culminating with the computer.  Read more...