mind doping
While chipbased memory extensions and other ‘stimulating’ brain implants might be a few years off, mind doping is big business already today.
“Despite the potential side effects, academics, classical musicians, corporate executives, students and even professional poker players have embraced the drugs to clarify their minds, improve their concentration or control their emotions.”
Brain enhancers based on beta-blockers, ADHD medication etc. are current day’s medicinal coffee for a significant percentage of students trying to improve mental performance and stay focussed for longer periods of time during exams etc.
Our world in which one’s status depends ever more on one’s mental lifting power (cf. knowledge economy, etc.) is a major contextual catalyst in the race for the viagra of mind doping drugs, e.g. a memory pill. Top performing ‘athletes’ in this context are no longer but sportsmen, but musicians, businessmen, daytraders, researchers, etc.
How is it changing our society? How is it changing the way we work, live, love?
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