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.
Can you relay a thought in an instant instead of the time it takes to speak?
That's not how thought works.
But sure, for the sake of the argument, let's imagine that's how it works. Yes, that's going to make everyone so much more efficient: an open comm where your every thought is getting transmitted to everyone else.
"I think I have a yeast infection."
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!"
"If that faggot Rogers doesn't quit grabbing my ass, I'm cutting off his balls and shoving them down his cocksucking throat."
"Hockey stick hockey stick hockey stick"
"This is a bug hunt, man, a bug hunt!"
"Wife wants me to pick up three gallons of milk, a pound of lard, and a dozen condoms..."
Seriously, you don't want to know what's in anyone else's head, nor do you want them knowing what's in yours.
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.
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.
That's not how thought works.
But sure, for the sake of the argument, let's imagine that's how it works. Yes, that's going to make everyone so much more efficient: an open comm where your every thought is getting transmitted to everyone else.
"I think I have a yeast infection." "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" "If that faggot Rogers doesn't quit grabbing my ass, I'm cutting off his balls and shoving them down his cocksucking throat." "Hockey stick hockey stick hockey stick" "This is a bug hunt, man, a bug hunt!" "Wife wants me to pick up three gallons of milk, a pound of lard, and a dozen condoms..."
Seriously, you don't want to know what's in anyone else's head, nor do you want them knowing what's in yours.
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.
Your rules to live by, not mine.