Elon Musk last week announced his company Neuralink has implanted its first chip in a human test subject.
AdvertisementInterest from potential test subjects is rather slim, as is: just 2% would "definitely" consider getting a computer chip implanted in their brain "within the next year," below the margin of error for the poll.
Overall, just 5% of respondents would at all consider getting a chip in the next year.
Men were more than three times as likely as women (13% vs 4%) to be down for a commercially produced brain chip eventually.
All told, 19% of respondents who said they read Dune would get a commercially available brain chip, and 11% of respondents who said they read Dune would get one this year.
Persons:
Elon, —, Elon Musk, Richard Foreman Jr, it's, Flowers, Algernon, Frank Herbert's, Algernon —
Organizations:
Service, Democrats, Independents, Summit Entertainment
Locations:
Silicon