You said it didn't necessarily have to be particularly realistic, right? What I think would be an awesome invention would be some kind of chip that could be inserted into our brains that would work like a smartphone. We could then use our mind to send texts, call people (that'd basically be like immediate mind-reading between two or more people), take notes in class, play games (maybe counterproductive to the previous task...), take photos (instant photographic memory), a library/encyclopedia sort thing where all the knowledge you encounter could be stored and recalled, a diary where all your memories could be stored and recalled, etc. Basically we'd become super-human. As crazy sci-fi as this may seem, I'd like to think that maybe one day in the faraway future, this kind of technology could happen! All I hope is that we wouldn't end up something like this...
Haha, wow if we had the technology to do that it would be pretty incredible. It would be a little bit scary though because that would cause the personal barriers to be broken down even more then they already are. Everyone will be immediately connected so it would be harder for each person to be able to avoid social pressure...maybe leading us to become the Wall-E characters? Great movie by the way :)
ReplyDeleteOne thing I would always be curious about is how the human mind would respond to its 'invasion' by electronics. I already miss my phone when it's not right next to me-how would I feel if my phone was almost a part of my body? I also wonder how some of our economic decision processes would change if we had the ability to perform complex calculations with ease.
ReplyDeleteYou idea scares me because I think they have invented this already, and this is the sort of thing that gave me nightmares as a kid!
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