Suppose technology actually gets to the point where we have access to the equivalent of Google through a direct brain\/computer interface. What would be the impact?<\/p>\n
In particular, how much better would we be able to function given such a capability? Would the resulting change be fundamental or just incremental?<\/p>\n
I suspect it might not make a large difference to most people reading this, since our fundamental way of thinking is already pretty set. But it might produce a radical change in children born after everybody has that capability.<\/p>\n
They would think about connections between things in ways we might not be able to imagine. With the knowledge in the world just a thought away, they might approach problem solving very differently than we do.<\/p>\n
Eventually, everybody will be born into a world where encyclopedic knowledge is simply normal. I wonder whether it would be possible for us to make some reasonable predictions about what that world might be like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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