Dare to dream

I dream

Of a world

where

Learning is not restricted to a person’s mental ability.

And knowledge is not limited by a person’s memory.

Today we have information. Any amount that we want. Wherever, whenever and on whatever we want. So much that we have hardly a clue what we are gonna make of it.

All of a sudden, Information – which used to be valued so much a decade back, is not sufficient any more.

IMHO, Knowledge is the next big thing.

What can be defined as knowledge? When information is connected to the pre-existing mental maps in our brain, it gets converted to knowledge. There is this ah-moment, when information makes sense. When information is coherent and consistent and can be applied without verification or doubt. When information is converted to human memory.

And the next evolution in human kind must be a knowledge outburst. An outburst wherein anyone can effortlessly gain knowledge. And where there are no constraints based on age or by the brain’s state.

I think one of the greatest traumas faced by a human being is when he loses his ability to learn. Why should the brain be squeezed so much? If we are talking about survival of the fittest, especially when today’s fitness seems to be defined quite a lot by a person’s ability to grasp, why not circumvent this?

Everybody should be able to learn.

Whatever they want to.

Whenever they want to.

and so I dream..

that technology aids the human race in this quest for knowledge.

that computing helps man understand all that he ever wanted to, without as much mental effort as is required now.

and that the human brain reaches and unleashes its maximum potential.

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