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As Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins inserting chips into human brains, we trace the history of ‘mind reading’ technology and assess the potential risks and rewards

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As Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins inserting chips into human brains, we trace the history of ‘mind reading’ technology and assess the potential risks and rewards

Imagine the unimaginable One of the biggest problems of our time is our increasing inability to imagine adversity. A fundamental use of imagination is to conceive of and prepare to overcome worst-case scenarios, a skill I call “negative imagination”. Living in prosperous, peaceful, and technologically advanced societies is killing our ability to imagine the worst because we are shielded from it – your mind cannot imagine what you do not know.   We are losing the ability to imagine troub...