Technology advances fast. Getting seriously hearing impaired, I can't wait for any solution to restore my communication. A little byond the horizon, solutions appear like DNA-manipulation, transplantation, cochlear implants or even a direct connection to the brain. From my point of view developments are way too slow but looking on a more larger scale, my little 13 year old nephew, will probably not experience the hazzards I am in. In a about 50 years from now people will have all sorts of devices to restore what they lost as a 100% healthy person. Visual and audio implants, a chip in the head to avoid epileptic attacks, artificial heart, kidney, liver and lungs, sort of brain-pacemaker to stay at ease and a computer in the back to be able to walk and run again after a serious motor-cycle accident and may be a lot more. That a person is still human is probably proved by the fact that there is still some flesh and blood and probably a mother claiming a birth a while ago. To make things not too complicated, let's skip the problems of discrimination for a moment.
Meanwhile technology advances fast in other areas as well. MRI-scanning is a blessing for medical research. At last we can look into the body and brain and try to explain what is wrong or how it works in the first place. Of course the search for a higher resolution is going on. Eventually we want to see the processes on cellular level and understand why and how a nerve-cell fires to it's neighbours, On a particular moment, let's say 50 years from now, we will able to scan the brain and look at a "moving" realtime and reallife model of brain processes. We even might be able to copy it and dump it on a stack of blue-ray discs.
Meanwhile technology advances in IT too. There is the "law of Moore" saying that every 2 years the # of transistors doubles on a chip. There is another law namely the computer power per unit cost, the so called "bang per buck". The law represents rougly a 32-fold every 10 years. This means that a 1000$ laptop today will be more then 3 billion times more powerfull in about 5 decades from now.
So picture this. U wake up. A lot of people are staring at u. U wonder what's going on and try to say something. No sound. U want to raise ur hand to ur mouth to couch. Funny, no feeling of movement. All of a sudden u look into the mirror behind the people and see that they are around a 6 foot by 19 inch rack stuffed with equipment with a video camera on top. No u. Weird. The door opens and 2 guys come in with another huge 19 inch rack. The rack is put tightly next to the other one and 2 big plugs are connected. One of the people pushes a button saying: "Well, let's see what he can do now". All of a sudden ur getting dizzy. People are talking with each other now and u seem to hear and understand every single conversation at the same time. U used to have some problems with that . Funny. Then the dizzyness fades away and a thought crosses ur mind. The problem about nuclear waste ur were working on for a few decades doesn't seem to be that complicated anymore. At the same time u see a chemical compound to combine CO2 with sand creating a lightweight very strong construction material solving the polution problem at the same time. And . . . . . . . . .
All of a sudden u get a little phylosofical. U look at all those people talking nonsense and u think: "I think better, so I am more".
Well, I guess by that time Isaac Asimov posthumously has received the Nobel price for his fundamentals around social and legal consequences of artificial intelligence and mechanical people. Pretending he was writing science fiction to amuse people, he was talking about discrimination and the concept of going byond human nature. His stories, sometimes looking outdated or not going far enough, all of a sudden proved to be attempts to make people getting used to the concept of improving very very very significantly.
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Technology advances fast. Getting seriously hearing impaired, I can't wait for any solution to restore my communication. A little byond the horizon, solutions appear like DNA-manipulation, transplantation, cochlear implants or even a direct connection to the brain. From my point of view developments are way too slow but looking on a more larger scale, my little 13 year old nephew, will probably not experience the hazzards I am in. In a about 50 years from now people will have all sorts of devices to restore what they lost as a 100% healthy person. Visual and audio implants, a chip in the head to avoid epileptic attacks, artificial heart, kidney, liver and lungs, sort of brain-pacemaker to stay at ease and a computer in the back to be able to walk and run again after a serious motor-cycle accident and may be a lot more. That a person is still human is probably proved by the fact that there is still some flesh and blood and probably a mother claiming a birth a while ago. To make things not too complicated, let's skip the problems of discrimination for a moment.
So picture this. U wake up. A lot of people are staring at u. U wonder what's going on and try to say something. No sound. U want to raise ur hand to ur mouth to couch. Funny, no feeling of movement. All of a sudden u look into the mirror behind the people and see that they are around a 6 foot by 19 inch rack stuffed with equipment with a video camera on top. No u. Weird. The door opens and 2 guys come in with another huge 19 inch rack. The rack is put tightly next to the other one and 2 big plugs are connected. One of the people pushes a button saying: "Well, let's see what he can do now". All of a sudden ur getting dizzy. People are talking with each other now and u seem to hear and understand every single conversation at the same time. U used to have some problems with that 
. Funny. Then the dizzyness fades away and a thought crosses ur mind. The problem about nuclear waste ur were working on for a few decades doesn't seem to be that complicated anymore. At the same time u see a chemical compound to combine CO2 with sand creating a lightweight very strong construction material solving the polution problem at the same time. And . . . . . . . . .
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