You bet, and to be fair, there is an actual worry to be had. Someone with a brain augment, for example, who processes information faster, retains better memory, can work more solid hours due to potentially being more mentally stable, can reach conclusions faster, etc. That person is just a much better hire than a baseline person would be without it, and this will be exponentially so when we factor highly skilled workers. Now, combine that with automation/artificial intelligence reaching its real stride, which honestly requires augmented humans to keep pace.Nanotechandmorefuture wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:35 am Just wait until people start walking around with some sort of designation that they have been augmented inside their body like Neuralink for example. The whole part about religious terrorists since they would be against this sort of thing is accurate and I forget the name of the dude with the Alex Jensen Deus Ex image because the series talks about this exact danger happening when it gets in the face of more people.
Edit to add: Dude's name is Cyber_Rebel. Hell yeah lol.
There is most definitely going to be opposition, and we need to be ready to properly educate people, so they won't fall into dark age luddism. If worse comes to worse, allow them the choice to live like the Amish within their own communities, with state welfare. Would be easier with an A.I. to oversee them and automated delivery systems. I think that's fair, live and let live.
@Yuli
I can see where they're coming from, but as someone old enough to remember logging onto those first old sites, I have to wonder if it was really any "better." Freer and in a way unique, but I think that's as much due to the internet being this new futuristic thing at the time and everyone was kind of taken aback by it. If the internet were still the same way as then, would it really add anything relevant to the lives of those who used it over the current one? It even seems inevitable we'd reach this point anyways, not just due to capitalism, but because people are people.
If the internet is fake, then the world itself too is also fake.