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Florian Solzbacher and Marcus Gerhardt came together to start Blackrock Neurotech. It has become the world's leading brain-computer interface company, producing the majority of BCI implants that are or have been in patients, ever.
A chip is implanted into the motor cortex. As a user thinks of an action like moving their hand, the computer decodes and analyzes those brain signals through an algorithm. Then, that digital command is transmitted to external devices, or in some cases, stimulates muscles or nerves to allow patients to move their own arms and hands.
Long considered the realm of science fiction, brain-computer interface technology is now a reality. And for people who have lost function, it's changing their lives. Soon it could be available to everyone, including the able-bodied population.
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To answer a question that's come up in the comments: Blackrock Neurotech is not related to BlackRock investments. They are a Utah-based company named after the Black Rock desert.
Now, are they associated with the Black Mesa Research Facility? :P
@@rugerdie4054 lmaooo gottem
Thanks for sharing part of my story, BCIs have the opportunity to help so many accomplish so much 🧠↔️💻
Thank you for putting yourself out there, I imagine the publicity can be hard at times.
So basically you moved your hand with brain signal. It's amazing. soon the day will come that mind can be able to control different parts of body.
You're incredible, Ian. Thank you for all you're doing to pioneer this field forward.
For the many comments talking about this, we are not related to BlackRock Investments. We're proudly Utah-based and found inspiration / got our name from the Black Rock Desert here in the state!
Its pretty cool the things your doing and could have many applications in the future.
However isn't stem cell neuron regrowth holding more potential for restoring completely natural movement and sensation in addition to being potentially easier?
Are you guys a for profit or nonprofit?
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Hey Freethink, can you confirm whether this company is tied to Blackrock Investments? Would be interesting to know...
It most likely is. They most likely want to monopolise this technology and turn a big profit.
@@kounkieinc3714 atleast they are doing something
I can confirm there is no tie to Blackrock investments. I work in a lab next door to Dr. Solzbacher. Just an unfortunate coincidence.
@@hunterstrathman3249 thanks bro
Good question
If someone can read my brain I might die, it is inevitable if I didn’t see it coming. This is mind blowing technology.
All hail plankton all hail plankton
This is brilliant.
Thank you for sharing!
HUGE if true! (I believe we'll get there!)
the fact that BlackRock are the ones leading this technology is insanely scary.
Yes 😬😬😬😬
Dystopic
Isn’t neuralink doing something similar?
@@robertkhan6599 It is.
Which BlackRock? Investments or Neurotech? I believe that the companies are separate.
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq 🤣🤣🤣 naive
How amazing and exciting!
I must wonder how they achieve that body accepts the implant. Some sort of inflammation must be an issue, especially around such a sensitive organ as a brain.
As far as i know the body doesn’t attack metal and plastic, so no inflammation.
I have nerve damage. People take what they have for granted.
On god I did too till I fucked up my foot now I understand how truly the little things mean
Not only just prosthetics, but it can control the exoskeleton as well with mind
I will never pretend to know the loss experienced by people who suffer with this. However, imagine life without risk. How do we look at life without fragility...? Who funds and owns this? Where does the funding come from? I look forward to seeing where this goes. I wish the disabled community all the best and love in exploring. I hope the upside is "contained" to restoring rather than augmenting. I mean, i doubt it, but 🤷♂️
Probably not in my lifetime. But there will be a time where a hacker can control someone with a brain implant and we would need to install anti-virus software in our brain implants. 😅
Ghost in the Shell
Amazing . Purely amazing.
Does it just give you the feeling back? Can it do anything about nerve pain? Or pain in general?
Can this help in curing blindness?
Hello, dystopia! Scuzzy!
Think about how, in the future, every important body part we have can be replaced by robotic parts. A robotic heart, a metalic skull, robotic lungs, muscles, nanobots that can manipulate the dna to stop aging as well as remove all disease, robotic spinal cord and bones that only need to be replaced every 50 years, and so many other amazing options that can remove deadly disease, obesity, ageing, memory problems, fix our stamina, give everyone the bodies they truly desired to where you no longer need to go to the gym or get glasses, no longer in need of a salon as we can use robotic parts to change every aspect and in turn become our most desireable.
Sarif was right about one thing. It's in our nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable. In the past, we've had to compensate for weaknesses, finding quick solutions that only benefit a few. But what if we never need to feel weak or morally conflicted again? What if the path Sarif wants us to take enables us to hold on to higher values with more stability? One thing is obvious. For the first time in history, we have a chance to steal fire from the gods. To turn away from it now - to stop pursing a future in which technology and biology combine, leading to the promise of a Singularity - would mean to deny the very essence of who we are. No doubt the road to get there will be bumpy, hurting some people along the way. But won't achieving the dream be worth it? We can become the gods we've always been striving to be. We might as well get good at it. - Deus Ex Human Revolution
Wonder if the plastic on the brain tissue causes irritation or inflammation?
It does. And that is one of the biggest problems. The brain forms scar tissue around the 'chip' so over time it works less and and less well.
Amazing
So sad …. We really are fragile .
Mentally , physically emotionally, even the strongest Human beings are really so fragile .
I have been thinking that for a long time- humans are fragile! What I’ve come to understand is that what really makes us fragile is the mind with all its random thought generation - as a species it is our greatest strength and most significant weakness.
I’m actually patented, hope this fixes it
Why is helping visually disabled people an after thought; we should be included in the brain prosthetic research.
I knew Neurolink had to be copying cuz I assumed there had to be longer pre-existing research and companies ahead of them. I can't wait for a world with equal access!
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It's in our nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. - Deus Ex Human Revolution
I suffer from perurisis would this help. And if yes I will literally be your guiney pig just to get some aspect of my life back. Because of this issue I'm not able to travel or experience anything everyone else is
Presented by Blackrock... Not sure if i want black rock to be leading investor in this market. No delet that, i am sure that i dont want that. Please choose your partners a bit more morraly next time.
The theme is without a question good and deserves more recognition, but not a the cost of Blackrock profiting of this, to conceal their real impact on the world.
Not the same company, cool your tinfoil hat.
@@witness1013 I looked into it and you are right thanks for clarification.
@@witness1013 Same as what?
Dude. "Blackrock neurotech" ? I can already see black mirror episodes now
Edit: thanks for clearing that up!
My Comment Assume this Blackrock is tied to the investment firm. If not ignore.
Black rock is a front company for the Uber Elite. Sell the populace on testing their life and consciousness extension technology that will only be rolled out to themselves loyal subjects (the moment you step out of line, "click" your biochip is turned off and it's back to the natural human condition for you bigot...)
Just to clarify, this company is not related to BlackRock Investments. We've pinned a comment to address it as a number of people had this question!
@@freethink thank you!
And maybe talking about dangerous situation here where computer has been taken over in the body those things that you don't need it to do in control of whomever can hack will be something to do with can be dangerous must have a safety protocol so this doesn't happen
There's a paralyzed living facility down the road from my house there's this one homie that's around the same age as I has little too no movement and just smokes as close too the road as possible
Techno miracle, by Academic Angels.
This is when it’s good .
Trojan horse 🐴! MK ULTRA...The Manchurian candidate...
So did Elon steal this idea for neurolink or did they steal his idea?
Blackrock y'all would share this with ALL people cheaply.
Just to clarify, this company is not related to BlackRock Investments. We've pinned a comment to address it as a number of people had this question!
now were gonna get people who can hack ... other people
amen! love from Israel 🕎✡ 🏩
great luck and success !!!💚💚💚💚💚💚
ImAgInE ThE aPpLIcAtIoN FoR gAmInG!
Crazy
Amazing. But orig is still the best, GOD's gift.
A yes, Blackrock. The company that buys out whole neighborhoods to ratchet up the rents, buys out farms from families who have been farming for generations.
Screw this
This is a transhumanist's dream come true. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Is human nature perfect? No. Therefore, improvements are to be welcomed. - Deus Ex Invisible War
When has humanity ever stopped wanting to improve itself?
Is the company in any way connected to Blackrock, Inc.? If not, maybe it's a good idea to change your name to one that doesn't invoke a connection to a giant shadow Bank that has far too much power and mainly uses it for its profit interests. Especially because you are working on brain interface chips. I don't want to attribute the nefarious nature of Blackrock, Inc. to you, but since you mentioned military applications of the technology in this video you should be careful that your products are helping humanity not dooming it.
Military application is good, tf?
Remember that the policy is DETERRANCE.
The more we can convince pariahs like CCP China and Russia, that war is unprofitable and unwinnable, then we inadvertently win.
Your utterly clueless if you think we havent dedicated millions of hours of thinking and work into achieving world peace. Unfortunately, we have the math to prove that we need advancements to sustain the equilibrium
@@honkhonk8009 Military application of this technology sounds pretty yucky. I am totally on your side when you say we have to convince everyone that war is unprofitable and unwinnable. That includes the US by the way, Iraq was a nightmare and Afghanistan did nothing to bring democracy and stability to the county. The thing I am most worried about is that this decision will most likely be made behind closed doors not by the public, but by powerful people, who are either ignorant of their fallibility or that have self-servicing interests in mind. I am pretty sure that we (the west) have enough detergents. I don't think Russia would have ever attacked Ukraine if there were still useable nukes in the country. I think there is a flaw in your reasoning that we need advancement to have equilibrium. We aren't fighting against a highly advanced alien species, but fellow men. We need equilibrium, I know that's hard to achieve when everyone thinks they have to be more powerful than the other to not be attacked. That's why we have to break that cycle of every increasing arms race, we already have the technologies for our destruction. You should play half-life, Deus Ex or Prey (2017). In all these games there is a small powerful elite deciding for all of mankind and thereby dooming them to a terrible fate.
@@Ninjaeule97 But you miss the point. the US has been laid back from advancements in military tech ever since the collapse of the soviet union. At best, we were fighting Taliban that didnt need advance stuff to counter.
China is not like the USSR. China is more than willing to publicly broadcast its intention to invade neighbhoring countries for no reason other than restoring national pride. China has also been willing to steal land from India, encroach on Australia, and use colonial tactics to setup bases near its neighbhors.
Half the CCP is rationale and only wants a prosperous china. The other half, is nationalistic and wants "social harmony" above all else.
We used to be able to cool down the cold war with diplomacy. But China doesnt do diplomacy, nor does china do Allies.
I have family members in China, and know their backwards and borderline insane ideology when it comes to geopolitics.
At the end of the day, we are gonna have to play Chinas game. We need to boost our economy, we need to boost our institutions, and we need to at best keep our military at a near peer status with China.
Trust me when i say this, the military and their industry counterparts are 100% aware of their own infallability. They have done numerous courses and exerciszes on organization theory purely to avoid groupthink.
Iraq and Afghanistan werent wars caused by the military. They were wars caused by politicians. The military in these wars performed admirably and better than expectation. especially during these two wars. But politicians chose the worst wars to involve our military in the first place.
@@honkhonk8009 I can see your point. I wouldn't say that military spending/investment in the US hasn't been low since the collapse of the USSR, you might say it's been low in the EU. I can understand your fear of CCPs China, especially in its alliance with Putin Russia. I would add that his Russia also isn't like the USSR (at least what I have heard about it). It's far more nationalistic and willing to fight not just proxy wars. China might bang the war drum when it comes to Taiwan, but I don't think they want to take that risk. The US decided during WW2 if invading Taiwan, either because there were some Japanese on the island or because it would have been a strategic position (I don't remember which), was worth it. They concluded that the terrain was far too difficult so defending was far easier than attacking it. Of course, if the CCP would throw every weight behind it, they could probably do it, but the cost for it politically, economically, and socially would be far too high. In the end, the cold war was decided by economics. When Khrushchev saw American supermarkets, Chernobyl happened, etc. it was pretty clear to everyone that the USSR with its ideology could never catch up. Unfortunately, I doubt we will have that same luxury with China. I think this time, it will be ideas that decided the new cold war. When the west can prove to the world that their system is the better one, China (and Russia) will become increasingly isolated. With the internet, it is pretty much impossible to prevent ideas from entering the country, so eventually, their system will collapse. So of course we need to strengthen our institutions, grow our economies by trading with whoever is willing to follow some rules, and make sure that our military isn't so weak that Russia or China can invade us. But we need to be careful with the last part. The military-industrial complex already holds a lot of power. You might be right that it was politicians who started the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but keep in mind that politics doesn't happen in a bubble. The industry supplied the arms, the military followed the orders, the media reported what it should and the voters gobbled it all up. How do we make sure this won't happen again, so the rest of the World doesn't see the west as just another China or Russia?
@@Ninjaeule97 The US defence spending isnt low, but their procurement spending definitely was low. Keep in mind the US spends all their money maintaining all their glorified amazon warehouses in random countries.
When people talk about the Military Industrial Complex, they usually talk about how the MID inflates the cost of weapons, and baloons the military budget. What people dont understand, is that the MID isnt Lockheed Martin or Raytheon. The true MID are the electrical companies, the food suppliers and the rest of the contractors in charge of managing all those offshore bases/glorified amazon warehouses.
I beleive the best ways to ensure that Iraq doesnt happen again, have already been done.
In Vietnam, we acknowledged our ego issue that caused us to lose that war.
In Iraq, we acknowledged our groupthink issues within our institutions, that caused this war.
Unfortunately, the best way to stop Iraq from happening, is to fix our information economy. The Media was responsible for this clusterfuck.
Supposedley, the third estate is supposed to keep our government in check, and make sure our think tanks and leaders actually get usefull criticism. Instead, the media ran off the 9/11 hype train, and allowed Bush to delude himself into thinking Iraqs nuclear WMD programs werent neutered by US sanctions.
Humans make mistakes. its fundamental to our nature. The US must learn to minimize those mistakes, by cutting down on their comittments. We won in afghanistan, but then turned it into a failure by trying to nation build a country, where 90% of their citizens didnt even know their country was a thing.
We won in Iraq, untill we went on our democracy moral high ground, and fired all of Saddams baathist government officials, resulting in them leaking into ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
For this to be successful FAST, it needs to be commercialized as a replacement for mouse and keyboard (and other PC input devices).
Interested people would install an extremely simple interface inside their brain through a minimally invasive surgery (or simply interface with skin). While each individual would be unique in how they express their intention, a modulator would be trained to take that intention and convert it into a standard signal that all PCs can understand. (The modulator can be upgraded or replaced to understand more complex intentions while the interface remains fixed.)
If the technology becomes fast enough, gamers would be all over it. Just imagine playing games without moving a single muscle on your body. Just by THINKING. You would have immense advantage over even the fastest mouse-using gamers. Who wouldn't want that?!
Why is it important to do it this way? Limiting this research and potential products to ONLY the disabled will only slow down the innovation as the market is too niche. There aren't that many disabled people in the world, compared to how many PEOPLE are in the world. Only when it's commercialized for everybody can this then become truly beneficial for the disabled as a technology they can take home, or they can modify to their unique needs.
This is the only real way to bring this outside the lab. That's why capitalism works, and philanthropy depends on it. :)
I 👍 agree. Let's talk to Investors. Or you can ask any Management Company does negotiate with Investors, and marketing the Innovation for you, on behalf of you. I hope, Elon Musk, Rockefeller, Bill Gates, and many millions Investors will come to negotiate for further development. Thank you. God bless us. Good luck. 😘👍💙😀🙏🍹💜💕💐
Mil use coming sn. Lol
How do paralized people get by (financially) and what do they do in their spare time?
Help from government/insurance companies, and in their free time they do the same things as you and me. Watch TV, listen to music, talk with friends. Depending on how severely they are disabled they will do other things too, like play videogames, some sports, etc.
Many work just like everyone else…
Makes no sense if those nerves are damaged you can’t send anything through them
I think we're probably not as smart as the people making these implants
There is damage difference between brain vs nerve fiber/spinal cord.
The BMI fixes usually the spinal cord injury problem.
The BMI just read the signal from the brain.
A wire is used to send signal to muscles to move.
Hope that clears up your misunderstanding.
@@AkaiKA4K It additionally sends them to the brain from prosthetic machinery.
@@AkaiKA4K ok that makes much more sense, thank you.
@@talyahr3302 bruh I’m educated as well and I’m right it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know human nerves cannot be repaired once damaged. Those nerves are basically replaced with transmitting wires according to another commenter which makes much more sense.
aw sweet manmade horrors beyond my comprehension
all things man invents are used for evil deeds. this will be no different.
they're used for good things too, this will be no different
@@hampTC
ya thats the excuse to get it to be used for evil eventually....
at some point tech needs to be slowed down because it is increasingly more and more every day used for evil....hence EVIL IS IN CONTROL OF THE WORLD
Well that's a terrible attitude. With that attitude why do anything let's just all give up and die! Come on you're being silly. Change your attitude.
@@JCRastafari calm down. Good will win in the end.
Am I the only one worried that this research is being funded by Blackrock. With the future (in works) upgrade you can hear Klaus Schwab talking to you all day long.
The future of advanced technology will not be focused on helping people. Like all things in this world the people who can do the research are the ones with money, and they will only do it to make more. The disparity in quality of life between the poor and the rich will only get bigger
It seems there is no link between the two black rocks, hopefully this one is not evil
This is different Blackrock
Just to clarify, Finlay and Rishabh are correct: this company is not related to BlackRock Investments. We've pinned a comment to address it as a number of people had this question!
the mark of the beast.
Not in and of itself but yes this type of tech will be a selling point for a portion of the early adopters. The major push will be around access to essentials (Food Water shelter)
@@rugerdie4054 what? 🤨 can you elaborate?
@@B.Whittaker yeah easy so I'm not trying to make a truth claim as to the veracity of the Christian religion. But if you look at the concept of the mark of the beast as something that would have to be technologically implementable in order to be realistically manifested in our reality.
Then the most surefire way to get compliance from populist is to cut off their access to food water and shelter to force them to capitulate to receiving the mark.
@@B.Whittaker if you are referencing my statement that that brain chip technology isn't the mark of the beast... Look into the "everything as a service" concept you can begin to see how human augmentation would be an excellent early adopter incentive to get a certain segment of the population to buy into receiving "the mark" willingly as opposed to having to be forced ( see my previous comment).
@@rugerdie4054 no no, I’m wondering why you’re jumping to the conclusion that this advancement in technology is evil and will be used to take away access to basic necessities, and how it could do so
“would be an excellent incentive for early adopters to get a certain population to buy into receiving ‘the mark’ as opposed to having to be forced”
“The major push will be around access to the essentials”
This sounds dystopian and unrealistic. Conspiratorial at best.
How is augmentation the medium by which evildoers will suddenly be able to commit evil by the likes of which we’ve never seen? Why do you assume precautions will not be taken? Why do you assume the creators of this technology have not already thought of this and will be transparent in efforts to mitigate the chance this tech will be utilized for such things? Your apocalyptic, conspiratorial assumptions are not a new phenomenon. Naysayers have been criticizing scientific advancement since the beginning.
Maybe in 100 years. Also all the uses other than helping paralysed people add a big maybe and another 50 years.
No one knew my grandma had a dental implant until it came out in a conversation.
2023
What about it?
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq that's when this technology will become available to the masses, and that's when it will be able to more than deliver on its promises
@@baticadavinci3984 Brilliant.
This technology is juvenile compared to Elon Musks company
I believe the opposite of what I know, but if my opinion appears to be incorrect, please inform me why your statement is.
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq neuralink had orders of magnitude more probes, processing power, and just makes this look like a toy by comparison. It's not even in the same league frankly, this is old old tech/science from era gone by.
@@witness1013 Am I able to witness online what you state? I had not realized that Neuralink had disclosed any of what they had accomplished, except that they had implemented microarchitectural machinery within the brains of pigs.
Musk fanboy spotted🤣