Here’s the futurist insanity of the week. They held a big conference in Dubai, called the World Government Seminar. [Naw, nothing to fear their….One World Government, Antichrist, mark of the beast…. ‘Nothing to see here! Just move along Mrs McGillicuddy.’] Well, the futurist, one-worlder, eggheads there were talking about the (almost inevitable) synthesizing of human brains with computers. This will give the folks that choose to do so, the Enhanced Singular Individuals or ESIs, quite the advantage over the ‘Naturals.’ The ESIs will be “capable of outsized mental and physical performance, will have a major impact on the practice of leadership, a major factor in determining whether a society succeeds or fails.” Fred Charles Ikle worked in the Reagan State Department and penned, Annihilation from Within, a work that dealt with this subject at that time. He offered this prescient analysis. “The prospect is that in the decades ahead, biotechnology – together with other sciences – may fundamentally change the human species and thus pose an elemental threat to democracy, the world order, and indeed to all civilizations. In my judgment, the greatest, most profound transformation of the human condition will not derive from the prolongation of life, or from the anxiously debated – and probably vastly overrated – possibilities of human cloning and “designer babies.” Instead, I see an effective synthesis of the computer with living human brains as the agent that will lead to a truly revolutionary upheaval for the human race.”
Such human-computer synthesis could spark an arms race where the weapons in play would not be nuclear missiles – but rather humanoid offshoots ‘upgraded’ to do the most damage. But it goes even farther. The UK’s Ministry of Defense offered this scenario. “By 2035, an implantable information chip could be developed and wired directly to the user’s brain. Information and entertainment choices would be accessible through cognition and might include synthetic sensory perception beamed direct to the user’s senses. Wider related ICT developments might include the invention of synthetic telepathy, including mind-to-mind or telepathic dialogue. This type of development would have obvious military and security, as well as control, legal and ethical, implications.”[i]
[i] Daniel Taylor, Pentagon Insider Predicted Synthesis of Human Brains With Computers, Old Thinker News, February 14, 2018
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