Well, as off-topic recourse, I see only cited some engineering problems in your “Against Cyborgs” essay as contraargument. Anyway, let me to say that in my book:
“miniaturizing and refining cell phones, video displays, and other devices that feed our senses. A global-positioning-system brain implant to guide you to your destination would seem seductive only if you could not buy a miniature ear speaker to whisper you directions. Not only could you stow away this and other such gear when you wanted a break, you could upgrade without brain surgery.”
is pretty much equivalent of what I had in mind with cyborging. Brain surgery is not the point. I guess it is even today pretty obvious that to read thoughts, you will not need any surgery at all. And if information is fed back into my glasses, that is OK with.
Still, the ability to just “think” the code (yep, I am a programmer), then see the whole procedure displayed before my eyes already refactored and tested (via weak AI augmentation) sound like nice productivity booster. In fact, I believe that if thinking code is easy, one, with the help of some nice programming language, could learn to use coding to solve much more problems in normal live situations, gradually building personal library of routines..… :)
Tim:
Well, as off-topic recourse, I see only cited some engineering problems in your “Against Cyborgs” essay as contraargument. Anyway, let me to say that in my book:
“miniaturizing and refining cell phones, video displays, and other devices that feed our senses. A global-positioning-system brain implant to guide you to your destination would seem seductive only if you could not buy a miniature ear speaker to whisper you directions. Not only could you stow away this and other such gear when you wanted a break, you could upgrade without brain surgery.”
is pretty much equivalent of what I had in mind with cyborging. Brain surgery is not the point. I guess it is even today pretty obvious that to read thoughts, you will not need any surgery at all. And if information is fed back into my glasses, that is OK with.
Still, the ability to just “think” the code (yep, I am a programmer), then see the whole procedure displayed before my eyes already refactored and tested (via weak AI augmentation) sound like nice productivity booster. In fact, I believe that if thinking code is easy, one, with the help of some nice programming language, could learn to use coding to solve much more problems in normal live situations, gradually building personal library of routines..… :)