Always on my mind

In January 2024, Elon Musk’s $5 billion Neuralink startup successfully implanted a brain chip into Norland Arbaugh’s brain, a 30 year old quadriplegic. In “Always on My Mind” by Daniel Felstead with Jenn Leung, master linguist and lyrical genius Nicki Minaj considers the ethical, cultural and social implications of the devaluing of language implied by this looming “digital telepathy.”