What if a company like Neuralink figures out a way to safely implant electronic knowledge devices in our heads that will allow us instant access to the sum of all human knowledge? How will that improve human civilization?
What will society turn into once we suddenly have expertise in all job fields as soon as we get these implants?
A teenaged McDonald's worker gets that implant, and suddenly he can be a CEO or a surgeon or an inventor with more expertise than Ray Kurzweil?
Since high-paying jobs will be filled by anyone with said neuro-implants, what will that do to their wages / salaries?
And since everyone with those implants will suddenly be qualified for the most prestigious jobs, what will happen to all the fast food and blue collar positions anywhere?
I guess some will also become expert robot designers and get humanoid robots (like the NS-4 and NS-5 on Will Smith's "I, Robot") to do formerly menial blue collar work, right?
At first, it could be expensive and only the rich get them initially, then what happens when all medical insurance policies and the government foot the bill on getting these mind implants for us?
What will society be like 1 year after these mind implants become widely available? 5 years? 10?
Also, for jobs that lose access to the worldwide network, such as mining underground, being underwater, etc., there'd also be an option to download the expertise of those jobs into their implanted data storage unit.
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