That thing's going to have to be completely open source (except for the manufacturing methods), and probably will be. I'd rather he work on it than Bill Gates too.
I don't think that will happen during our lifetime, as the tech still has a long way to go for the benefit vs risk to be high enough for it to be appealing to healthy people or make ordinary people fall behind "chipped" ones. First, it will be used as almost like an upgrade to deep-brain-stimulation which is already used to treat certain conditions like depression. Then, I think they'll try to implement it to treat people with certain disabilities, like blindness. After that, it'll be far enough along that using it to augment the lives of otherwise healthy people could realistically be looked at.
No matter who inevitably makes it, we'll have to have one. It'd be like deciding between becoming a mildly retarded chimpanzee or continuing life as a human. And the non-chip alternative would be letting AI decide our lives for us.
Can you remember every part of your life in exact detail and replay things? Can you share dreams with other people? Can you relay a thought in an instant instead of the time it takes to speak? Can you know where everyone in your group is without pulling out a map, a phone, or speaking out loud?
If not, you're not going to make a good reporter, a fun gamer, part of any think tank, or even part of the military in the future.
Technology will improve. That last sentence is technology improving without that chip, meaning AI/Robots will do our jobs for us, and humans will be completely unnecessary.
Evolution is hobson's choice. You can either get good or die.
That thing's going to have to be completely open source (except for the manufacturing methods), and probably will be. I'd rather he work on it than Bill Gates too.
But, ultimately, you concede that we will all have to have one?
How do you define, 'Hobson's Choice'?!
I don't think that will happen during our lifetime, as the tech still has a long way to go for the benefit vs risk to be high enough for it to be appealing to healthy people or make ordinary people fall behind "chipped" ones. First, it will be used as almost like an upgrade to deep-brain-stimulation which is already used to treat certain conditions like depression. Then, I think they'll try to implement it to treat people with certain disabilities, like blindness. After that, it'll be far enough along that using it to augment the lives of otherwise healthy people could realistically be looked at.
No matter who inevitably makes it, we'll have to have one. It'd be like deciding between becoming a mildly retarded chimpanzee or continuing life as a human. And the non-chip alternative would be letting AI decide our lives for us.
Speak for yourself, Bobo. My brain works just fine.
Can you remember every part of your life in exact detail and replay things? Can you share dreams with other people? Can you relay a thought in an instant instead of the time it takes to speak? Can you know where everyone in your group is without pulling out a map, a phone, or speaking out loud?
If not, you're not going to make a good reporter, a fun gamer, part of any think tank, or even part of the military in the future.
Like I said, hobson's choice!
I don't have to choose between continuing humanity and anything else!
Your last sentence is pure nonsense.
Technology will improve. That last sentence is technology improving without that chip, meaning AI/Robots will do our jobs for us, and humans will be completely unnecessary.
Evolution is hobson's choice. You can either get good or die.