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Monday 30 June 2008

The intelligence-boosting through human-computer connections is even easier to see — just look in front of you. We’re already offloading certain cognitive functions to our computing systems, functions such as memory, math, and increasingly, information analysis. Powerful simulations and petabyte-scale datasets allow us to do things with our brains that would once have been literally unimaginable. That the interface between our brains and our computers requires typing and/or pointing, rather than just thinking, is arguably a benefit rather than a drawback: upgrading is much simpler when there’s no surgery involved. Singularities Enough, and Time

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