Using Technology to Enhance Humans

Roland Piquepaille writes "It's a well-known fact that technology can improve our lives. For example, we can reach anyone and anywhere with our cellphones. And people who can't walk after an accident now can have smart prosthesis to help them. But what about designing our children on a computer or having a chip inside our brain to answer our email messages? Are we ready for such a future? In 'Robo-quandary,' the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that many researchers are working on the subject. And as a professor of neuroscience said, "We can grow neurons on silicone plates; we can make the blind see; the deaf hear; we can read minds." So will all we become cyborgs one day?"

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communication

[froggero1]

communication is a great thing, don't get me wrong... but who plans on being that important to justify being accesable 24/7 via a brain implant?

i don't have a mobile phone, and rarely is it the case that someone was trying to get ahold of me and couldn't... people can wait for me to return a message on the answering machine.

I think the source of this problem that researchers are trying to solve is the impatience that everyone seems to have nowadays...