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So many people are already functionally hooked up, even if it is happening through their eyes and not a direct wire. Prove me wrong, everybody: don’t touch any of your devices for a week. It’s nigh unthinkable now but I remember times when the internet didn’t exist, cell phones didn’t exist, I had no cable TV, no game console, and would only turn on my little black and white Mac to write a paper for school. We listened to music a lot, socialized in person, smoked a lot of… various things, had a lot of sex. It’s a rather poor trade we’ve made if you ask me.
There are people with functioning brain implants helping the blind to see, the deaf to hear, etc.
They don't work nearly as well as the evolutionary naturally grown versions, they have some nasty technical problems, but they do work after a fashion.
The underlying assumption is "exponentially growing scientific knowledge and technical capability" will turn these dreams real - and it will, for some very small subset of what is being dreamed. I don't think a practical "everybody gets one" smartphone in the brain is coming in the next 100 years, but who knows?
People still do all that, go to a festival and you'll see plenty of that, it's just downtime between social events is filled in by phones
I yearn to go back to the days when a 2 minute lapse in focus/interest didn't subconsciously send me reaching for my phone.
They've got drugs for that...
Yea. I have tried a few. But they either don't work for me. Or the come down at the end of the day leaves me unable to do anything.
I know. My weakness isn’t necessarily waiting time, but time spent on dull work like housework. My brains starts going “BOORRING!”
Those people don't exist anymore.