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Self-made millionaire leads Elon Musk in fusing brains and computers
Elon Musk has been in the news lately mentioning the integration of computers and the human brain. I first saw this idea in Ray Kurzweil's book, Age of Spiritual Machines, where he basically says this is the next step in human evolution. Kurzeil goes even further and posits that death will be optional in a relatively short period of time ( I think I saw him on TV talking about what he was doing to try to live longer, thinking this may be possible in his "natural" lifetime).
The above article is about a guy who has a company already trying to do this. I guess it would be like you have perfect memory and access to information embedded in your brain.
Kurzeil touches on some of the challenges this presents. One being, if you think the world is divided into haves and have nots now, just wait until some people have this "enhancement" and others don't.
Could you see this being done to all newborns?
Would you get this done to you if it was available?
The borg def: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(Star_Trek)
Elon Musk has been in the news lately mentioning the integration of computers and the human brain. I first saw this idea in Ray Kurzweil's book, Age of Spiritual Machines, where he basically says this is the next step in human evolution. Kurzeil goes even further and posits that death will be optional in a relatively short period of time ( I think I saw him on TV talking about what he was doing to try to live longer, thinking this may be possible in his "natural" lifetime).
The above article is about a guy who has a company already trying to do this. I guess it would be like you have perfect memory and access to information embedded in your brain.
Kurzeil touches on some of the challenges this presents. One being, if you think the world is divided into haves and have nots now, just wait until some people have this "enhancement" and others don't.
Could you see this being done to all newborns?
Would you get this done to you if it was available?
The borg def: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(Star_Trek)
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