Get Ready To Throw Away Your Calculator And Get A Brain Enhancement!

Dr. Michio Kaku a world renowned theoretical physicist has proposed that as robots become smarter and more intelligent than us humans that we should begin to think about merging with them by means of nanotechnology in order for us to maintain our status as the world’s superior and dominant players.

How? You may ask. As nanotechnology (our ability to accurately create, control, and run complex parts at the cellular and atomic level) improves, we may create microscopic chips that could be implanted directly into our brains giving us unimaginable brain power that boosts our intelligence.

With enhanced intelligence this now means we have the potential to slowly turn regular people into geniuses able to instantly calculate large numbers, expand their memory capacity, process larger amounts of information, and make even split second decisions more accurate.

The big questions to ask now is who will be the first to get such powers? What could they do with them? And what will that mean to people who cannot have access to this sort of intelligence?

My personal take on this subject is that no one should worry. Developing this particular technology takes time and the chances of an all-in-one multi-enhancement breakthrough happening is fairly small. Therefore, these brain implants will likely come in increments allowing larger groups of people access to small scale enhancements before they become more powerful.  Or I could be wrong…

Nevertheless, the idea of billions of geniuses living together in the same world is extreme, meaning it will probably either be very good or very bad in my opinion.

Would we lose our own humanity by exponentially and artificially increasing our intelligence? Could this mean that we begin to interact with everything based primarily on calculations and statistics?

At which point does better actually mean worse?