Umar Khan

“Companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink had been working since 2016 to develop what was known as an H2M interface—human to machine—a device that could convert data obtained from the brain into understandable binary code. One of Musk’s first milestones had been to implant a monkey with a Neuralink chip and teach it to play the computer game Pong using only its brain impulses to move the paddle.”
― Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets

“He’d seen artificial intelligence apps, of course, but he’d sworn publicly never to use them. An existential threat to the noble craft of writing!”
― Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets

“Dying felt a lot like dreaming, she had explained, describing how in dreams we often perceived ourselves as weightless, massless beings, with the ability to move through obstacles, fly through the air, or shift locations—in essence, we became a consciousness without a physical form.”
― Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets

“Stephen Hawking was essentially a mind without a body.”
― Dan Brown, The Secret of Secrets