Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are two rich men behind giant tech companies. The former owns Meta, which operates Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. The second owns SpaceX, Tesla, and the most daring of all, Neuralink. One has plans to create a mixed reality headset to connect to technology intuitively. Another thinks simply of implanting chips into people’s minds to treat depression, quadriplegia and other neurological diseases. Which of the two will succeed on this journey? What exactly do you want? Can these two reach their goals?

Zuckerberg announced his idea of ​​connecting people and machines in the form of a metaverse. In his opinion, virtual reality glasses will someday be used by everyone, and this will be a big step in our evolution. The work environment can be completely virtual, with meetings and avatars representing us. It will be possible to play and have exclusive virtual items with NFTs and using blockchains. Today, however, it is difficult to imagine how this could have been such a reality, despite the fact that modern technology has been greatly improved. Glasses, even the lightest ones with a lens to improve vision, are already uncomfortable for many. Those who use it do it to see better. How to convince someone to wear something that adds multiple features but weighs 3 times more than regular glasses. In addition, the price is also a deciding factor, and the projects that Zuckerberg shares are in excess of $300. But there is hope for him, and billions of investments are bearing fruit, which I comment on in the video.

For Elon Musk, the story is different. Because what you do is really different. Elon Musk is doing something that could be truly revolutionary and is primarily aimed at people with serious neurological conditions. If they manage to cure their illnesses, it’s only a matter of time before the chip is used for other purposes, even entertainment. However, there is a resistance of our body to foreign bodies, it is not so easy to fit something in the head and hope that biology will accept it calmly. And in fact, already in the tests of Neuralink, several monkeys could not resist, which caused criticism. Be that as it may, Musk is always confident (and this applies to all his projects, even if they do not go very well).

In this video, I comment on the main details of each technology and how they can be the next step in connecting people and machines.

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