Will rapidly advancing technology make us primitive in the long run?

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Originally Posted by Master_of_the_Faster

Well, I know that the idea of brainchips might be rediculous of how a person might want to store something in their mind

I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not so I won't snap back at you like I was planning to.

I don't think that the idea of a brain chip storing information in your mind somehow is ridiculous, I think that it would be ridiculous for a brain chip to give you the information you would need to counter such a widespread catastrophe, should it occur, because it would be like describing the theory of relativity to a plumber: he doesn't care. Not that we wouldn't care, but it's like I said, no one thinks something like that will happen until it does, so it would be unnecessary to have a brain chip give you that information really.

As for the rest of your first paragraph, I think it's mostly speculation about what you think might happen in the future. Except for:

Originally Posted by Master_of_the_Faster

A scientist would not need to recreate every single thing in technology, but just enough to be able to make back up brain chips.

I disagree.

Think about this: Where did all of the information on the brain chip come from? Did it come with the brain chip when you bought it? Does it come from a remote database somewhere that has everything everyone has ever known in the entire world? Do you go in for upgrades at certain intervals to receive new information that's been added?

Obviously, we don't live in a world where brain chips are an everyday thing, but my point is that the information would have to come from somewhere, and it would most likely come from another computer. But, like we said, all electronic technology has been wiped out, so what would we do?

If you're about to say, "Well, stupid, we rebuild the computer," then how are we supposed to put all of the lost data back onto the computer once it's been destroyed, even if we do manage to somehow rebuild it? Even rebuilding the computer itself would be next to impossible, because we would need to find records of how to create all the components that make up a computer.

I'd say that what you're describing is highly implausible, realistically speaking.

Originally Posted by Master_of_the_Faster

Yes, people could choose to not have brainchips, but I think that if everyone is smart to the same degree (with their own uniqueness), they can help society and not be kept away by it. I think that if you refuse a brainchip, the futuristic society might keep you away from them or something (I would hate to see discrimination in the future, but it's possible). Unless you don't trust the functions of a brainchip, I don't see why a person would refuse to have one. I believe that you could buy a brain chip and obtain only the knowledge that you want and take it off if you wish.

So you're saying that if you had a brain chip and I decided to figure stuff out the old-fashioned way, you would probably ostracize me? You're talking about some high-tech segregation, my friend.

I could refuse a brain chip because I don't like the inventor. Does that necessarily mean I don't trust the technology? I don't think so.