“A Chip in the Brain for a super mind”. The Cyborg Future. “A Chip in the Brain for a super mind”. The Cyborg Future. Bryan Johnson is the founder of Kernel, it works on brain implants to integrate human intelligence with the artificial one. ROMA. A past like mormon missionary, he still looks like one both in aspect and in his prophetic tones and his driving mantra: “To improve everyone’s life”. Even in today Bryan Johnson embraces a different belief: technology. “Intelligence is our greatest and powerful resource”, he explains. “The future of humanity lies in it’s natural symbiosis with the artificial one”. Welcome in the mind of the creator of one of the hi-tech startups of the moment. It is called Kernel and it born in Los Angeles last year and aims to develop a little chip to be implanted in the brain, designed to acquire, understand and modify the electrical impulses generated during the brain activity. And guaranteeing us the chance to talk directly with the computer. A one hundred million dollars project, to start, shows the new fever which is affecting the Silicon Valley prophets: the cyborg men fever. Super smart, receptive, healthy and – maybe one day – immortal. It is the dream of science fiction writers and a possible reality both for Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and PayPal that recently announced a society with similar aims (Neuralink)– and Johnson. Johnson, how did you come up with this idea? “For the last 15 years I’ve asked to myself: “Which is the most important contribution I can give to humanity? First of all I founded Braintree, a payment company that was acquired by PayPall in 2013 for 8 hundred million dollars, then I created OS Fund: an investment fund in which I personally spent one hundred million dollars. It has the aim of curing aging-related illnesses and to and of extending the expectation of healthy life beyond one hundred years. Lastly, I have been working on the human need. Why? “The intelligence, in each form, is the biggest and powerful resources in the well-known world. It is the foundation of our activities. Working in this area is the today’s equivalent of getting ready to go to the Moon. The future of humanity lies in it’s natural symbiosis with the artificial one”.