@AMGT I don't disagree. We will likely see side effects from these procedures and very likely they be very negative. I don't think we will decide against doing it though so I'm optimistic about our ability to learn from and correct our mistakes. I'm sorry to hear about your dad, but procedures as new as that will become more effective and safe with time. I certainly understand how it can make you uneasy though. Inevitably negative things will happen when you play with fire, but if we didn't we'd still be in caves and afraid of the dark.

@AMGT looks spooky to me. Everyone else is saying Matrix. and I am thinking of the chip in the back of their head in The Day The Earth Stood STill

@btroje not to sound disrespectful(I think it might but believe me when I say it's not my intent) is it only youngest who can be optimistic? My interpretation of the world so far(reasonably a limited one) is that though we are capable of awesome things and all of them a movement toward the best life humanity can build, has been that of a society that experiences growing pains and makes mistakes on a timescale not equivalent to an individual. Of course some can see the inevitable negative consequences of something new but others can see the amazing positives such endeavors can yield. No doubt the atom bomb showed great potential for destroying the entire human race, but it's terrible power was used only the once and not again even through the extreme tensions between the worlds 2 greatest superpowers. If I look at a person in adolescence with naive views I don't jump to the thought that they will die in a drunk driving accident. They same goes for an adolescent intelligent species. No doubt mistakes will be made, but destruction of our humanity(figuritively or literally) is not what I perceive will follow.

@SocraticAddict you certainly have a youthful view of things

@Naeem I'd like to think it's just conspiracy crap like the chip implants that will never happen but, one never knows.