Your brain + the cloud = super humans

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Nanocomputers implanted in our brains that connect to the cloud will usher in a new era of critical thinking and human advancement, Google’s Director of Engineering predicts in a TED Talk. Ray Kurzweil says that by the 2030s, nanobots embedded through the bloodstream into our brains will create hybrid-minds that combine the current power of our brain with the almost limitless processing capacity of cloud-based computers.

These micro-computers will help us get quick answers to complex problems and will provide the extra juice needed to come up with creative new ideas. This new cloud-based capacity we can unlock for our brains will not be the first time we’ve had a vast expansion of the processing ability of our minds…

200 million years ago human beings developed a new area of the brain named the neocortex in the front portion of our forehead, which gave us the ability to think critically and creatively. It has allowed humans – but no other species – to develop advanced language and thinking…

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