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DavidandreiST t1_ja38h6z wrote

I'm a geologist, and as a species/society we've always been chasing rocks, and yes "rocks" aka silicon based minerals forms the silicon used in semiconductors, which we're now in midst of either replacing with carbon nanotubes or Carbon-Nitrogen, organic semiconductors, or at least that's the plan.

Speaking of the society part, while as a society we're not yet ready for it, strictly speaking the goal of humanity is merely to lessen its work, if it can remove the need to work entirely then that's what humanity is going to do.

It's very similar to the Culture, in the same name books, spacefaring society that reached true communism by removing human politicians and letting AI provide for them, their multi century lives being basically doing hobbies or volunteering to do stuff, work being done by AIs.

So, the issue isn't what's happening in the end, it's the end we have. There's no way to stop society from eventually transitioning into a post scarcity one.

As for the transhuman part or cyborg part, the organic semiconductor, could potentially allow us to replicate smartphone SoC and antennas into our brains, being powered by wasted energy in the brain, and controlled by reading brain trough little bigger than atom sized electrodes.

It's very similar in concept to current electrode based chips like Neuralink's N1 or those made by University Laboratories, which are more advanced in a sense. In a way, figuring out how make such thin, organic transistors and electrodes could allow us a lot.

Such as putting your own diagnostic computer in your brain, being able to read all of your brain, and all of the data that your body generates that you aren't privy to consciously.

I've only said sorta positive things, I ask you, chat/reader/redditor/human shaped fish to answer potential negatives and solutions to them.

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