Hold on to your asses!
Elon Musk, co-founder of Neuralink, says they have the technology to build a real version of Jurassic Park.
“We could build Jurassic Park if we wanted to,” said Max Hodak posted on Twitter Saturday. “They would not be genetically authentic dinosaurs, but [shrugging emoji]. Maybe 15 years of breeding + engineering to get super exotic Roman species. ”
Hodak did not explain how his neurotechnology company could revive long-lost prehistoric beasts, but later backed the idea, saying it could increase biodiversity.
“Biodiversity (antifragility) is certainly valuable; conservation is important and makes sense, ”Hodak wrote on Twitter. “But why do we stop here? Why don’t we try more intentionally to generate new diversity? ”
But in the 1993 film “Jurassic Park”, based on a best-selling book published by Michael Crichton in 1990, the scientific plan breaks down.
Paleontologists visiting the island of genetically resurrected dinosaurs find themselves in a T-Rex-sized payload as the monsters release and begin hunting humans.
The film was the highest grossing film in its opening year and the highest grossing film to date. In a memorable scene, the character Ray Arnold, played by Samuel L. Jackson, proclaims, “Hold your ass!” while he supplies the faulty security system of Jurassic Park.
Meanwhile, last summer, Neuralink unveiled a functional prototype of a brain implant device that founders believe can cure everything from blindness to tetrapllegia.
Musk introduced an early version of the gadget that he implanted in a pig and later said that human studies could begin as early as 2021.