Their view that neurotech will just make us happier and more smart.
That's one view, but that's not all there can be.
It is very possible that neurotechnology will pretty soon (within 10 years) enable people to have weird experiences or even trip without drugs (of course, it would take maybe a few years for the word and tech to spread around). I can totally see young people, who have lived with computers their whole lives, trying these things in a minute and it's different than with drugs because these are legal and don't carry social stigma. What that might well mean, is that we will be seeing 1960's the second time, albeit a bit differently of course.
But as governments aren't controlled by these kids or even older people, this tech will be banned and it's pool of users will go down like acid's in the seventies.
Will there ever be a revolution, and a real change. Maybe, over time. But as long as rulers insist that nothing is wrong with a person as long as they don't have any clinical disorder, the world will stay in darkness. I hope I'm wrong and the optimist spirit of transhumanism proves right.
Edited by poser, 10 November 2008 - 03:39 PM.
