I seriously doubt that we'll ever get to the point that we're comfortable with brain surgery just to upgrade our "connectedness." The real win is some sort of skull cap which can read your brain signals, and communicate with your brain through the skull. Seems impossible now, but I wouldn't be surprised if they come up with a way.
My concern is that we haven't yet gotten smartphones right. Most of us love and hate them. I'd love to have something like parental controls on my phone which I could use to limit what I can do with it: set limits on my usage, control which apps I can use, and limit what I can do with them. There's a variety of enforcement mechanisms ranging from putting in a longer random password and not writing it down, have my spouse set it up, have it setup initially and then come up for review every three months...
But imagine if we all had something similar, inescapable, engaging, entertaining, and utterly addicting in our heads. Yikes. Imagine if you've got notification overload...In your head. Yikes.
No thanks. I'm still trying to get a handle on my damn smartphone addiction.
My concern is that we haven't yet gotten smartphones right. Most of us love and hate them. I'd love to have something like parental controls on my phone which I could use to limit what I can do with it: set limits on my usage, control which apps I can use, and limit what I can do with them. There's a variety of enforcement mechanisms ranging from putting in a longer random password and not writing it down, have my spouse set it up, have it setup initially and then come up for review every three months...
But imagine if we all had something similar, inescapable, engaging, entertaining, and utterly addicting in our heads. Yikes. Imagine if you've got notification overload...In your head. Yikes.
No thanks. I'm still trying to get a handle on my damn smartphone addiction.