content: Depends who the programmers are, if it's open source, etc. Not touching anything from farcebook, goolag or microshit, at least nothing that hasn't been heavily modified for privacy/security. I would love to be able to react at the speed of thought in games, on the road etc. and queue up actions to be taken when certain conditions are met (autopilot), while still being able to think clearly/freely. I'd love to have the vast majority of the world's knowledge just a thought away. Be able to learn a language, or simply have one accurately translated in real time. I'd love to be able to time an action with family/friends/co-workers down to the millisecond. I'd love to just blink and think 'picture' and have a high-resolution photo of whatever I was looking at, or to 'listen' to a book, watch a movie/tv show without it disturbing anyone else around me and not deal with wires for ear buds. I'd love to be able to 'write down' good ideas and stuff as they come to me, no matter if I'm on the shitter or in the middle of a intense conversation with a friend, or even hiking in the mountains with no cell coverage. I could go on.>  I don't believe anything coming out in the area open source for a very long time. We don't even have open source hardware (cpus) so imagine this kind o of tech. For me the cons are stronger than the pros. I would prefer a slower pace of living still. The new generation has access to loads of info and they cannot even finish a book / video longer than half an hour.  Not really sure how it's "Alex Jones' Theory" lol, sci-fi has been around with these ideas longer than I've been alive (and certainly longer than Jones' conspiracy theories and shit.) In fact they've been around so long I find it sad that so many people still see it as some outlandish alien idea. Just goes to show how poorly read most people are these days as well as their lack of imagination. What really scares me is the idea that sometime in the distant future computer viruses could infect someone's BCI and through that drive them insane/make their body do things etc.>  Yep but now it's hitting mainstream and coming in like less than a year.  Viruses, hacking, etc... Way too dangerous. They would just download your brain and sell the info.  I doubt you have anything to worry about in the next 25 years, anything I would find worthwhile/the money is probably beyond that. Our pace of technological advancement has slowed a bit. This is probably at least partially due to us-as-a-species sucking our thumbs, wasting our time at the bottom of this rock's gravity well, looking at pretty things and trying not to kill ourselves in boredom before the species gets it's other thumb out of it's ass and pursues our next perceived 'final frontier' (at least until we get a good grasp of the dimensions outside of the 4 we obviously inhabit). Many say 'Our technology isn't ready yet, people will die!' To which I say, DUH, we have yet to pursue a frontier for which our technology was completely ready, nor have we pursued any frontier without loss of life. People die all the time, on earth, in their beds, having sex, riding motorcycles, fighting over the pathetically limited resources and real estate of our planet. I would love to go to space, do EVAs, work on pretty much anything up there, even with a greatly increased chance of death. Probably less dangerous than going to work through heavy traffic in the morning. One thing is for sure, if we don't spread throughout the solar-system and eventually the galaxy we will go extinct due to disaster (a pulsar hitting earth...or the sun, think death star beam), or the wrong people getting their hands on WMDs, or our overuse of anti-biotics finally comes back around to bite us.>  I don't agree, yes we slowed down on some areas but wait till you see what's coming out on the AI side. The tech is here just no public yet.  Edit: Just thought of the other side of the coin... If true AI is born before BCI's are invented/widespread humanity would be safer during it's infancy. However, until we know more about AI, I would be just about as worried about an AI helping program/invent the BCI's as if it were google or farcebook. The question is, which comes first? Do we need to understand the brain to the point that BCI's are plausible/possible to even have a chance in hell of making a true-AI. Or the other way around in which we figure out AI but are unable to figure out BCI's without the AI's assistance. Also, AJ is probably one of the last people I would listen to on this subject, he doesn't seem to have any understanding of the technology behind it. Hell he seems to think tech firms have some form of extra-dimensional alien help or technology, which is one of the crazier things I've heard. To be honest videos like this pain people who have some understanding of technology, I'd be willing to bet that many are made/posted by people who want to brainwash and scare normies away from the potential of future tech and more importantly the future of the human species. The powers that be are terrified of what happens when we finally do start expanding and making colonies, especially if they're self-sufficient, they won't need input from any short-sighted earth-based government, and the governments of Earth would become a joke. Towards the end of the clip Elon talks about AI regulation which is a good idea as long as it doesn't end with AI for big tech and governments only, this would end with the masses being easily (much more easily than it is now), controlled and directed. I apologize if any of this seems obvious or condescending, you never know where to start. If you're curious about the future and the possibilities it holds I would encourage you to start by reading, Iain M. Bank's "Culture" novels, and Stephen Baxter's "Xeelee Sequence." I would also encourage you to watch some of Isaac Arthur's excellent videos about humanity's potential future, some will scare you, some will tickle your brain in a good way, and a few will blow your mind. If you've read a lot of sci-fi, a lot of his stuff will be familiar, but he usually rides the ideas further than the books.>  Thanks for the recommendations will deffo check them. I understand what you are saying about credible source for technology info. What you need to understand is the deep state / military is 20 years ahead of what you think it exists in terms of what's possible. You can only speculate but I believe true AI and advanced BCI's are already a reality. If this is hitting mainstream soon and people in the field are shit scared imagine what they have cooking for the future. In my opinion we don't even need AI to have a good human experience. We need to evolve on the energy side and become 100% sustainable. The powers that be are not terrified if they control your brain from the root. I don't care how they flip it if something connects directly to my bio self it's not happening with my consent.