In order to better understand what Neuralink is and what it aims to achieve, I feel it's important that we first take a step back and have a look at the person who's behind its conception. For those of you who have heard of him there's not much that needs to be said, his history and achievements speak for themselves, but to those who don't know of him, he is called Elon Reeve Musk. He is the real life embodiment of what Marvel's superhero Iron Man tries to personify, a true enigma attempting to bring upon numerous positive changes to our society. He happens to be the person without whom we wouldn't have a practical, online alternative to existing payment systems such as checks and money orders in the name of PayPal. And not just, he is also one of the co-founders of Tesla, Inc. (formerly known as Tesla Motors), America's current most valuable automaker, whose…show more content… Moving on, in Neil deGrasse Tyson's interview with Elon Musk from the StarTalk Radio episode ìThe Future of Humanity with Elon Musk.î, it becomes clear that after Musk managed to secure his financials through the sale of Zip2, an early cross between Yellow Pages and Google Maps, using most of the money to later become involved in the making of PayPal, selling that to Ebay and walking away with one hundred and eighty million dollars (180, 000, 000$) and allegedly helping him ease into a sort of "psychological-philosophical anchor" and also a baseline enabling him to feel worry-free to think of how to help bring more of his visions come closer to
