Ted Chiang wrote a short story, "The Evolution of Human Science", about that idea. If I recall, the main premise was that new parents could choose to give thei

Ted Chiang wrote a short story, "The Evolution of Human Science", about that idea. If I recall, the main premise was that new parents could choose to give their children a neurodevelopmental drug that would cause vastly increased intellectual prowess at the cost of gradually losing their connection to human society to the point of indecipherability. I think it was a bit heavy-handed. But maybe I'm not remembering the story correctly.