Brain Chip Implants

The latest announcement about Brain Chip implants signals another step in humanity’s embrace of digital technology to improve health and quality of life.? Nowhere will this be more important than in chips which measure and transmit cognition in real time.? ??

Chip-based implants will measure, record and transmit a user’s capacity to grasp and apply information and knowledge.? Like the evolution of the cell phone—at first a luxury, then an option, now a necessity, chips will evolve until finally most individuals will opt to have the implants out of necessity.? Their ability to transmit neural signals will be a necessary step to access work and compete in the global market economy.? Job placement will depend in part on one’s neural cognition score and the individual and career data that will accompany the score.? This data will be available through an opt-in global skills and workforce database.? While university credentials will remain as an indicator of ability, the cognition score will also be a necessary but not sufficient data reference point.?

On the positive side, digital implants and neural cognition scores will drive education into a more personalized and customized modality.? There will be greater pluralism in decision-making regarding who gets hired or contracted. Huge new medical opportunities will be provided to monitor and mediate mental health.? On the down side, internet-related privacy issues will arise and open new opportunities for “thought police” to impose their views as suggested by Professor Avi Loeb in a recent article.? The meaning of human consciousness will be redefined—a subject for a future essay.? As individuals merge with technology at a neurological level, traditional notions of what it means to be human may undergo radical redefinition.

What an irony.? As Professor Loeb points out, funeral service incantations will change from “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust” and be replaced by the common phrase “Ashes to chips, dust to integrated circuits.”? Are we ready for this?