Confession: I got sucked into the conspiracy theory cult for a number of years, where the idea of human hybridization with technology took a lot of heat.
You know... the theory that implanting RFID chips was just a way for the "elite" to control the human population and turn us all into computerized slaves...? Yeah.
Thankfully, I didbreak out of the tinfoil-hat-clan a few months ago and discovered there was some power in critical thinking and that life is alot happier without an incessant paranoia that "they" are always out to get us.
And in relation to the topic of merging man's biology with computer technology - a field often referred to as "Transhumanism" - I've actually been having a profound change of heart lately - especially thanks to my recent obsessive, addictive indulgence & contributions to Steemit...
Why?
Steemit - for me - has unleashed a creative flow unlike anything I've ever quite experienced before.
I've always had an excess of creative energy, but never an appropriate outlet. I've written before and made music, but the immensity of the energy was always overwhelming and could never flow out fast enough - backing up to create a whole shitload of internal chaos, driving neuroses, addictions, and just alot of all-around madness.
When my subconscious got that there was REAL, tangible, measurable, direct incentive for creating content in a way unlike anything else that's ever existed, something activated. I couldn't stop writing. And alot of it turned out pretty good, according to voters who put some decent coin in my virtual pocket.
There's been a huge relief, as my creativity has found a suitable outlet. But, there's also been another problem created:
The ideas for what to write come at least 10x faster than I can actually write them.
While I keep pounding out cool articles, I'm backed up and frustrated with not being able to write as fast as the ideas are coming to be written.
And, there are hundreds of amazing stories from others coming out everyday that I'm aching to keep up with - but simply can't because of that pesky dimensional limitation of time.
There's no possible way to juggle all the writing I've got lined up and read everything else I want on here, even if that's all I did 24 hours per day. And that doesn't even take into account the creativity that's been yearning to flow through producing music, or reading dozens of books on my Amazon wishlist, or just fucking living life and experiencing the world hanging out in person with cool people.
Quite the challenge.
And, the possibility of linking the human brain with a computing interface poses a solution to this challenge.
Imagine if you didn't have to sit down at a computer and spend hours typing out all the articulate details of the ideas in your head to form a well-composed article or book.
Imagine if you didn't have to read articles word-by-word (or page-by-page, if using advanced speedreading methods), but could just download the content straight into your awareness.
There'd be no backup of ideas to write. They'd be able to get digitized as fast as they came.
There'd be no reading list of articles or books to get to. You'd just upload them directly.
And as a music producer, the idea of being able to capture the music flowing through my consciousness without the time-consuming labor of manually tweaking every little detail on a computer screen is the ultimate fantasy. This would be as close to my personal heaven I could imagine (minus the hundred virgins).
While some people fear the idea of man merging with machine - for these reasons, I am eagerly anticipating the day when such technology becomes available, safe, and effective as a solution to such creative and info-overload challenges.
While some might view such a proposition as risky or blasphemous, this could actually be a major beneficial step forward in tapping the wealth of the human potential in unprecedented ways.
There are all kinds of serious crises threatening our planet, so many areas needing upgrading that countless NGOs and NPOs and governments have been unable to solve. Gaining access to such increased processing power - being able to fuse human consciousness with the technology to get us up to speed with the acceleration of information, would allow solutions to be clarified, articulated, developed, and executed faster, easier, and more effectively. We wouldn't be burdened by the constraints of time - but our creativity liberated from it, free to explore and develop innovative potentials near-instantaneously.
Perhaps this is a direction we need to be evolving it, for our species may not be able to survive without adapting to such conditions we have unleashed in this world in such a manner.
Perhaps we aren't even so much in control of this evolutionary process, as we are participatory object within it - surrendering to such transformation, or getting left behind in the dust.
The possibilities truly are unimaginable, in the most glorious of ways. (The closest one could come to imagining what it'd be like, perhaps through various psychedelic experiences).
Ray Kurzweil is probably one of the most popular to have addressed such possibilities, and one to follow if any of these subjects interest you. Having been at the leading-edge of the futurism & transhumanism movements and known for his futuristic predictions as to how technology will transform our lives, society, and planet, he's been a voice articulating the numerous impacts exponentially-accelerating technology will have in the decades ahead. And frankly, according the vision he and others have foreseen, there may be no other way to keep up than through the integration of our human neural networks and genetic memory system with quantum hardware computing technology.
Truthfully, I'm fascinated by the prospect.
Being able to translate thoughts into form without the barriers of time, and to digest libraries worth of knowledge at light-speed... That may not be everybody's cup of tea, but by God, how fucking mind-blowingly orgasmic that could be.
But in the meantime, it may be a matter of developing patience and the skill to manage time & energy constructively - making the most of the resources on hand to bring ideas into reality and learn what serves our highest growth.
Perhaps only once those skills and wisdom to manage such an abundance of creative energy effectively, could we be ready to transcend the limits of time.
As much as unrestricted access to unlimited knowledge and unbounded creative freedom could be personally rewarding, it could also be incredibly destructive if that type power were put in the wrong hands.
If you're interested in learning more about Transhumanism (a whole movement focused on the topic of merging man & machine), feel free to subscribe to my Transhumanism Twitter list of some of the top leaders in the field for news & updates.
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