Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 16 · column 2 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
“blur” the distinction between mind and machine to allow multiple sclerosis victims to walk, permit the deaf to hear and the blind to see.
“This is the here and now,” according to Garreau, who said some of these advances could be commercially available within five to 10 years.
“What we’re talking about tonight is one of the biggest revolutions in hundreds of thousands of years in what it means to be human,” he said.. As he spoke, he paced the meeting room and clicked PowerPoint images of evolution-themed New Yorker cartoons, history’s first “telekinetic monkey” and cloned goat and alleged steroiduser and San Francisco Giant outfielder Barry Bonds at the plate.
Until recently, technology has been “aimed outward” to change the environment, Garreau said. Think of agriculture, the creation of cities and space travel, he suggested.
Now, for the first time, technology is “increasingly aimed inward” to “modify our minds, bur memories, our metabolisms, our personalities and our kids,” he said. “And if you can do all of that, then you’re really talking about what it means to be human and what it means to change human nature.”
Technology suddenly gives new meaning to the U.S. Army recruitment slogan “be all you can be,” Garreau added.
In striking ways, people and society soon will face tough questions about how and/or whether to adopt such technolo
89.9%