I think I used to think that Neuralink was a great idea, but I’ve grown to really appreciate the slow and sporadic nature of receiving and understanding information. When we eradicate the struggle to know and to understand, we’ll start to treat information and books like commodities (which is the case now with the widespread access of information I guess).

What does it really mean to understand? When we read a novel or take in information from a non-fiction book, we interpret the content through our own unique perspectives since we all come from diverse backgrounds and have experienced vastly different things in life. How would technology be able to solve this issue of interpretation? Would we be forced to see and understand information in a linear fashion? Would we be curbing the potential of the human mind? I wonder if it would indeed be a better world with Neuralink as the norm.

Thanks for reading and for sharing such a thought-provoking scenario. It’s definitely interesting to think about.