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I don't think it will influence course of events much. Governments will reluctantly allow genetic treatment of debilitating heritable conditions (nothing else,
by red75prime 7y ago
I don't think it will influence course of events much. Governments will reluctantly allow genetic treatment of debilitating heritable conditions (nothing else, for obvious political reasons). And then brain-computer interfaces will make heritable component of intelligence less important.
- aiscapehumanity 7y agoBest comment in this whole thread, everyone else is parroting the usual responses. People do not grasp the potential of neural interfacing technologies, I get the genetic component is important metric more for holistic metrics of a population of community but it's only one layer and when the body is made more machinic and commodified it won't matter much what quality of birth stock (for the average)you come from but how well you've been augmented regardless.
- nine_k 7y agoBrain-computer interfaces won't do much to the structure of motivation and other traits that make certain genetically "more nerdy" types better predisposed to certain types of mental work. Much like easy and cheap computer-based DAWs and musical instruments did not make everyone a musician or a composer on equal footing.
- aiscapehumanity 7y agoYou can literally stimulate networks, you may even be able to chemically and topologically change networks with combined technologies. We are talking about brain interfaces of the future, obviously some of which may get more invasive yet safe, assuming that engineering around the sensitivity of the brain improves.