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Elon Musk on Monday announced that the first human patient has received a brain implant from his startup, Neuralink – which according to Musk "Enables control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking."

"Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal," Musk continued.

(And imagine how many more alleged orgies Hawking could attend!)

The Neuralink brain implant, called Telpathy, was designed to help people with traumatic brain injuries operate electronic devices only with their thoughts. It uses ultra-fine "threads" to help transmit signals. In May, the company received FDA approval to conduct human trials in a study which uses a robot to surgically place a brain-computer interface (BCI) implant in an area of the brain that controls our ability to move. The company announced late last year that it was recruiting patients with quadriplegia caused by cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Musk said that the initial results of the implant "show promising neuron spike detection."

According to Kip Ludwig, co-director of the Wisconsin Institute for Translational Neuroengineering at the University of Wisconsin, 'neuron spike detection' means the company is receiving data from the patient's brain, Bloomberg reports, adding that monkeys with the implants have been able to play computer games with their brains alone.

Last June, Neuralink was valued at around $5 billion.

Hopefully the socialists don't start a Borg collective.