Well, we have all heard of the challenges of "brain drain" where an organization loses their intellectual human capital and resources when people leave the group. But we haven't heard of the "Brain Faucet" much, and yet, I bet we do quite soon. This is where someone turns on the spigot and suddenly the intellectual human capital is flowing like never before, so much in fact you cannot contain it and it spills over into everything surrounding the company, organization, agency, business unit, or group.
Imagine all of a sudden that everyone in your place of work was instantly 10-points smarter? What could you do? Imagine the productivity, increased speed and quality of your internal systems, and the ability of the front-line employees on up to work cohesively and have better outcomes at all turns? This increased synergy would be a force-multiplier. It would be akin to an economy where all of a sudden there was 10-percent less tax on every individual and every company all at the same time. What would that economy do? Grow!
Remember the Movie; "Limitless" where an individual writer who was fairly intelligent already suddenly had super human processing power in their brain? Are you starting to see my points here? Researchers at the upper end, might cure cancer, and folks at the bottom of the "Bell Curve" of IQ might suddenly be able to make it on their own without social funding, freeing up money and making those lower-IQ helpless people suddenly productive members of society, not drag or dead weight to be taken care of.
Does all this sound like Science Fiction, like that action drama "Limitless" well it need not be, as we are almost there, for instance, I'd like to cite a Science News article recently which appeared in Fierce Medical Devices online; "NIH's BRAIN initiative, philanthropic Kavli Foundation provide $185M to study brain science," on October 2, 2015 written by Varun Saxena which stated:
"The NIH (National Institute of Health) just awarded 67 projects $38 million under its Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, putting its total investment the project at $85 million in FY 2015. More than 130 researchers in 8 countries and the U.S. received the funding. They represent 125 institutions."
It is amazing every day we read such articles and how much we are learning about the human brain. What if every US Citizen with proper Identification was given a quick treatment boosting their IQ 10-points instantly? Can you imagine what that would do for our nation? Talk about a 'game changer' and yet, it's all possible now, we have the technology to do it, Should We? You decide, I vote: Absolutely. Article Source
Imagine all of a sudden that everyone in your place of work was instantly 10-points smarter? What could you do? Imagine the productivity, increased speed and quality of your internal systems, and the ability of the front-line employees on up to work cohesively and have better outcomes at all turns? This increased synergy would be a force-multiplier. It would be akin to an economy where all of a sudden there was 10-percent less tax on every individual and every company all at the same time. What would that economy do? Grow!
Remember the Movie; "Limitless" where an individual writer who was fairly intelligent already suddenly had super human processing power in their brain? Are you starting to see my points here? Researchers at the upper end, might cure cancer, and folks at the bottom of the "Bell Curve" of IQ might suddenly be able to make it on their own without social funding, freeing up money and making those lower-IQ helpless people suddenly productive members of society, not drag or dead weight to be taken care of.
Does all this sound like Science Fiction, like that action drama "Limitless" well it need not be, as we are almost there, for instance, I'd like to cite a Science News article recently which appeared in Fierce Medical Devices online; "NIH's BRAIN initiative, philanthropic Kavli Foundation provide $185M to study brain science," on October 2, 2015 written by Varun Saxena which stated:
"The NIH (National Institute of Health) just awarded 67 projects $38 million under its Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, putting its total investment the project at $85 million in FY 2015. More than 130 researchers in 8 countries and the U.S. received the funding. They represent 125 institutions."
It is amazing every day we read such articles and how much we are learning about the human brain. What if every US Citizen with proper Identification was given a quick treatment boosting their IQ 10-points instantly? Can you imagine what that would do for our nation? Talk about a 'game changer' and yet, it's all possible now, we have the technology to do it, Should We? You decide, I vote: Absolutely. Article Source
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