The idea of implanting chips in people’s heads is not a new one. It has always been something that has been whispered about for ages. Even when it wasn’t entirely possible, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before it happened, to the point that doomsday preachers even prophesied that it would be the beginning of the downfall of humanity.
But then, it is what it is. In this day and age, people are already getting chips in their heads, and so far, it’s been really helpful. It helps people with disabilities and also gives them access to things that they would otherwise have no access to without the chip.
Yeah, many people will be against it because it is ‘unnatural’, but then, just about everything we use today is unnatural. We use them simply because they make our lives easier. The clothes we wear aren’t natural, but we wear them because, besides covering our nakedness, they help to protect us from the elements. Cars aren’t natural, but we’d use them in a heartbeat because we can’t afford to trek for miles and kilometers.
I could go on and on about how technology has been helpful. People who have amputated their limbs make use of prosthetics to continue about with their lives. Technology is meant to help make life easier for us. Now, I know that in most of the examples I cited, they’re all external uses, and they don’t really have an adverse effect on the human body if things go wrong. Whereas a chip implant will always have the possibility of malfunctioning one day.
I think that in the end, what matters is why you need it. The topic says it’ll make your memory sharper, so you’ll find it easier to remember stuff, no matter how long ago it happened. You’d be able to remember it clearly, based exactly on how it happened and not how your brain rearranged it.
This would be a great advancement in technology, but it won’t be for everyone. Because not everyone would be happy to have a chip in their heads. Not even anywhere else, but their head? Where all their thinking takes place. It won’t be that easy to accept, and not everyone has a problem with remembering things. So, many would be less inclined to participate in such an act.
However, the people who will enjoy this are those who are getting older and whose memories are becoming duller with age. Those who suffer from dementia and other brain-based illnesses. If you’ve seen someone with end-stage Alzheimer’s before, you’d know that they definitely need a chip like this. It can be painful for your family for you to look at them, and you don’t even know who they are.
So, if such a chip does exist, I won’t fight it. Because while I don’t feel that I need it now, I know that the older I get, the less sharp my memory would be. And at that point, a chip might just be handy to help me remember the good old days and how good I had it then.
I’m not really scared of having doctors poke around in my head, but I’ll prefer they do that when I’m aged and wrinkly and have nothing new to offer the world. So that however the procedure goes, I won’t be losing much.
Uh-huh…
