Earlier this year, Elon Musk announced that his tech firm Neuralink was working on getting monkeys to play mind pong.
Now, Neuralink is pushing to bring more sci-fi nightmares to life by considering a real-life "Jurassic Park."
Per Max Hodak, Elon's Neuralink cofounder:
This plan has some serious uphill battles, unless Max and Elon have a sample of preserved T-Rex DNA (but never say never!).
There was no indication of why Max randomly thought it was a good idea to opine about bringing reptilian monstrosities back to life, but he followed it up with this tweet:
The idea here is to not only preserve existing species that are going extinct due to changing environments, the idea is to create new – or "novel" – species through genetic engineering.
Let me just ask: if our world was turned upside down by a "novel" virus, how do you think the world will handle engineered mutant demon-spawn running loose in the streets?
I mean, seriously, did you learn NOTHING from Jurassic Park??
Still, I can see three potential positives:
- First, a T-Rex on Mars would be pretty dope.
- Second, if velociraptors are roaming the streets, maybe Joe Biden will be nice enough to let us keep our guns!
- Finally (more seriously), switching from a homeostatic view of our planet's climate – where we prevent anything from changing ever – to one where we adapt, restore, and innovate, is a much better tack to take.
Just maybe not with dinosaurs.
