For the first time, Noland Arbaugh explains how Elon Musk’s brain implant, which allows him to control a computer with his thoughts, has changed his life.
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 lake with a group of friends.