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Elon says it, so it must be true:
Humans must become cyborgs and develop a direct high-bandwidth connection with machines or risk irrelevance and obsolescence, says Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
Musk's latest cheery thoughts were imparted at the World Government Summit in the UAE. "Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence," Musk said, according to CNBC.
The main thrust of Musk's argument seems to hinge on the limited bandwidth and processing power of a single human being. Computers can ingest, transfer, and process gigabytes of data per second, every second, forever. Meatbags, however, are severely limited by an input/output rate—talking, typing, listening—that's best measured in bits per second. Thus, to risk being replaced by a robot or artificial intelligence, we need to become machines.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday February 15 2017, @10:42PM
These themes keep coming up in a British show I've been watching called Black Mirror. Wouldn't it be nice to have implants that recorded everything you ever saw so you could go back and view objectively correct memories? Or are we completely unprepared to face the truth and would be much happier if the people around us could reconstruct that truth into something livable? Wouldn't it be nice if we could block people from interacting with us in the real world? Or would the government abuse this to block certain people from everybody? And when does this intrusion into our private consciousness become a venue for unblockable advertising?
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?