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?
