What if someone decides to hack the downloading technology to plant misinformation? Brainwashing? What if people decide to do the thing in reverse to pull off the ultimate identity theft? Or overwrite a person's personality and identity (aka the Mind) completely via wiping the previous guy's memories and downloading an entire set of different memories? Would that effectively be murder? Would downloaded content be registered in database so the government could know what you have learned? Would that ultimate violation of privacy? How would Human Rights need to be changed to accommodate these changes?
The way I see it, while potential of benefits is extremely great, the potential for abuse is simply monstrous, and the legal and ethical repercussions a complete mess to sort through.
Downloaded Education (RAR!)
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Re: Downloaded Education (RAR!)
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Re: Downloaded Education (RAR!)
Take a look at your own signature. There's absolutely nothing-at least so far-suggesting that this technology can do anything but dump information in your brain. As others have pointed out, the information being manipulated is a valid concern, but there's absolutely nothing to suggest that the process can be reversed, leave alone to the point of identity theft, nor is there any indication that it can be used to overwrite already existing memories. At least for the time being and given available information, it's just a faster way to absorb information, nothing more.
Which brings up a question. How, exactly, do people treat this downloaded knowledge? A lot of people today know that there's claims that magic is real, there's an afterlife and the Earth is only 6,000 years old. So, if that kind of stupidity were dumped into their brains via Education Download, would they automatically accept it to be true, or would they acknowledge that the information exists but go 'Um, okay, this makes absolutely no sense' the way sane people in the real world do?
Which brings up a question. How, exactly, do people treat this downloaded knowledge? A lot of people today know that there's claims that magic is real, there's an afterlife and the Earth is only 6,000 years old. So, if that kind of stupidity were dumped into their brains via Education Download, would they automatically accept it to be true, or would they acknowledge that the information exists but go 'Um, okay, this makes absolutely no sense' the way sane people in the real world do?
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Re: Downloaded Education (RAR!)
Yeah, I'm imagining the education in this scenario similar to real life, where you can later re-learn something that you learned incorrectly the first time (maybe similar to a new textbook you read in high school having updated information that shows a elementary book wrong). Or that, if there are errors in a e-course you downloaded, you can spot them by figuring out similar problems in that course, or if the basic courses are correct.
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Wouldn't people only be able to remember basic concepts from their download?
Otherwise the download would be superior to normal education if one can actually memorize all the pointless trivia one must remember.
Otherwise the download would be superior to normal education if one can actually memorize all the pointless trivia one must remember.
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