Neuralink’s First Patient Describes Living With a Brain Implant

Noland Arbaugh still doesn’t quite know what happened. He doesn’t know many of the key details about how his life took such a drastic and now extraordinary turn. How he became Noland Arbaugh, celebrity cyborg.

It was mid-2016, and he had his first day off as a sports counselor at the Island Lake Camp in Starrucca, Pennsylvania. Arbaugh, then a student at Texas A&M University, had spent two previous summers working at the kids camp. The people and surroundings, including a nearby man-made lake, were familiar, and this day was like many before it. He’d planned to go to the ...