What do you guys think of smart chips inplanted in our brains at birth?

You know so you won't have to go to school anymore. You can just download shit directly in your brain for now on?

Imagine a world where everyone is smart!

Feh! Why do it with hardware...that's so 1950's. Memory RNA is the way to go!

What's that?

Essentially, it's chemically stored information that goes straight on into your mind. Shows up in Larry Niven's science fiction stories a good bit. It's a wetware, not a hardware approach.

It would also take a lot of fun out of learning. Then again, I'm old-fashioned that way.

I just want to download Miley Cyrus: Greatest Hits into my brain.

^^^Fair enough

I got a humor-enhancing-brain-implant.
The damn thing is totally malfunctionering half of the time.

Built in Wi-Fi baby!

What makes you think that giving people all the answers will make them smart? The purpose of school is to (attempt) to teach you how to think.

"Hey baby, want to DL my wet ware?"

I imagine it would be a world where the wealthy would get chipped and others would have chips either priced out of their reach or withheld, because it wouldn't take the smart ones long to figure out no one will do their housecleaning and yardwork and any other number of low paying tasks if they are all so gaddamned brilliant. I imagine it would create even more of a divide than already exists between the haves and have nots.

Plus you guys would have to come up with some better and smarter pick up lines. Think of the pressure.

You're thinking this through all wrong. If everybody is smart, we will come up with solutions to chores. Like genetically engineered grass that never needs cutting, and robots that clean up after us. It'll be like Star Trek. You ever see anybody do anything even remotely physical on Star Trek? I mean besides Captain Kirk boning anything that remotely resembles a female.

And that solves your pick-up line dilemma too.

Alien chicks are easy.

As Llama says,

Information != Intellect

Oh great, so life can become a series of Johnny Mnemonic sequels?

I want this v-ship out of me.
It has stunted my vocabulary.

Huh huh. Huh huh. You said "stunted".

I'm just a Luddite. I'm resistant to technological change.

Also, you're not just learning all this information when you go to school, you're also learning to learn. You're finding out how to do things with the information.

Anyone's desktop computer has the capacity to store all the recipes ever written. It still can't make a goddamn sandwich.

I could really use a chip right about now.

I got a ...nm...I got nothing.

I have one rock-solid, unbeatable argument against any such actions -

Keanu Reeves: "I know Kung-Fu"

Trebek: "For the last time, no, you don't!"