Indeed, our brainpower is finite. We have dramatically increased the amount of data available to our brains, but not our brain's ability to process it. I beli

Indeed, our brainpower is finite. We have dramatically increased the amount of data available to our brains, but not our brain's ability to process it. I believe that cellphones, Google glass, and other "augmented reality" systems are all just stepping stones on the path to a direct neural link to cyberspace. Hopefully, by the time we reach that end, we have the ability to boost our brainpower so that the new surge of information does not diminish all our other senses. At present, too many people equate "having literature on your cellphone" with "understanding that literature." For certain types of information (e.g. manuals, data tables) having a searchable format is almost as useful as already knowing the contents. Having a searchable copy of Hamlet, however, is not nearly the same thing as having read it. When the day comes that I can have a ethernet port in my head, and downloading a text file of Hamlet is virtually the same as having read it with my eyes, I will gladly sign up. But until then, looking around at all the people with various headsets, phones, and now Google glasses, I will chuckle to myself, because all I see are glassholes missing out on the world around them.