All the other ones will happen to the best of our ability, but only for specific groups, and people(Or at least people like me) could wond up seeing them as almost cults, for a long while until it is totally proven safe and beneficial.
The rest of us, at least for now without major cultural change, will just do more and more of our "thinking" outside our heads.
Unless you can prove, via decades long studies, that your enhancements are totally safe and side effect free, with not even some headaches or 1 in 10000 complications, I'll just... use google.
Even if you did have the studies I'd still want to personally meet enhanced people and see for myself if it altered their personality or caused some random aches and pains, or had some other regrettable thing they didn't bother to do a study for.
Even after all that, there could still be social discrimination. If cyborgs were disliked my most people, I'll probably leave it to the people who are passionate about enhanced intelligence.
Sure, maybe I could get a better job. Maybe I would even be able to understand 3D space well enough to do things like driving and not occasionally walking directly into door jambs.
But by the time you have the enhancements cars will be self driving and computers will be able to do even more of the math I'd want to do.
I don't think I have any close friends who want a Neuralink.
CAD programs are essentially already a primitive form of neural prosthesis. We can work with shapes we couldn't work with mentally, and workflows outside of the traditional "Imagine, understand, write it down" are possible.
Even if ALL the problems are solved, it probably will only be useful to people working in specific cutting edge sectors, and for committed philosophers(Professional or amateur) who belong to a school that is not against enhancements in the first place.
All the other ones will happen to the best of our ability, but only for specific groups, and people(Or at least people like me) could wond up seeing them as almost cults, for a long while until it is totally proven safe and beneficial.
The rest of us, at least for now without major cultural change, will just do more and more of our "thinking" outside our heads.
Unless you can prove, via decades long studies, that your enhancements are totally safe and side effect free, with not even some headaches or 1 in 10000 complications, I'll just... use google.
Even if you did have the studies I'd still want to personally meet enhanced people and see for myself if it altered their personality or caused some random aches and pains, or had some other regrettable thing they didn't bother to do a study for.
Even after all that, there could still be social discrimination. If cyborgs were disliked my most people, I'll probably leave it to the people who are passionate about enhanced intelligence.
Sure, maybe I could get a better job. Maybe I would even be able to understand 3D space well enough to do things like driving and not occasionally walking directly into door jambs.
But by the time you have the enhancements cars will be self driving and computers will be able to do even more of the math I'd want to do.
I don't think I have any close friends who want a Neuralink.
CAD programs are essentially already a primitive form of neural prosthesis. We can work with shapes we couldn't work with mentally, and workflows outside of the traditional "Imagine, understand, write it down" are possible.
Even if ALL the problems are solved, it probably will only be useful to people working in specific cutting edge sectors, and for committed philosophers(Professional or amateur) who belong to a school that is not against enhancements in the first place.