When I was a kid, we actually had to learn and remember stuff!

David Jimerson said:
Remember when people were worried about "the future" because of the computer technology of the '60s?
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No but I do remember people saying we'd have flying cars by the 1980's and going to see the premiere of 2001 in the late 60's and thinking how cool the future was supposed to be. Not even close. Even Bladerunner projected flying cars and what things were going to be like in 2019. That's less than eight years away now and needless to say I won't be holding my breath. We can't even make a decent battery powered car yet, let alone one that can fly.
 
I want the "forget specific" version...

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I'm sure when at least 50% of the driving public figures out how to actually drive correctly on the ground we will see flying cars.
 
The more I think about this, the more I'm surprised I'm not hearing more about it on the news. This is pretty phenomenal. Can you imagine having a usb port with a thumb drive of what you've learned? Also, can you learn what someone else has imprinted into this memory? This could (reaching here) potentially eliminate the need for schooling all together if they can fit all of those lessons in there.
 
Hawk Teflon said:
The more I think about this, the more I'm surprised I'm not hearing more about it on the news. This is pretty phenomenal. Can you imagine having a usb port with a thumb drive of what you've learned? Also, can you learn what someone else has imprinted into this memory? This could (reaching here) potentially eliminate the need for schooling all together if they can fit all of those lessons in there.
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Personally, I think that's a scary and awful idea.
Think about it.

First of all, the difference between knowledge and information is that you can pass information along, and you can recieve it as well. But it's not until you understand it and have made personal experience from it, that it becomes knowledge.
For instance, I could tell you everything you need to know about operating a camera, but until you've tried it yourself, you only have the information I've given you but no actual knowledge of it.

So let's say you can now with the help of cyber inplants in the brain also pass along knowledge. That means you're passing along experience, which means you're programming another person with a behaviour pattern.

If half of all of your decisions are emotional and based on who you are genetically (everything from your temper to your metabolism to your IQ) and half are intellectual based on your previous life experiences, the ability to program people's experience patterns is a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands.
Or just accidents, like system bugs, crashes or a new computer virus.

That's a scary thing.
 
Jawa Ex Machina said:
Personally, I think that's a scary and awful idea.
Think about it.

First of all, the difference between knowledge and information is that you can pass information along, and you can recieve it as well. But it's not until you understand it and have made personal experience from it, that it becomes knowledge.
For instance, I could tell you everything you need to know about operating a camera, but until you've tried it yourself, you only have the information I've given you but no actual knowledge of it.

So let's say you can now with the help of cyber inplants in the brain also pass along knowledge. That means you're passing along experience, which means you're programming another person with a behaviour pattern.
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It's spooky but, it kind of already happens in nature. Many species are born with innate abilities, even humans. Some of them are quite sophisticated, like spiders abilities to spin complex webs. This is augmenting that to an incredible degree.
 
While I agree it's definitely a scary thought, I wonder how it could be used medically. I mean, if someone comes along and gets very close to getting a cure for something, they could pass on 50 years of work and study instantly to a new team. The new doctors wouldn't have to research everything the first did. They'd already have it.

But what happens when an important military leader gets captured. No longer can they "not talk." People would have plans instantly. On the same route, catching terrorists could have the same recourse.

I'm assuming you could just download courses from the App Store.
 
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