"Meta AI glasses augment you with better memory and the knowledge of the internet - you mutter your questions and the answer is returned in audio, side-loaded into your working memory. Cognitively this feels just like thinking hard to remember something. I can see a future being built out where I have a smart watch that gives me a sense of direction, a smart ring for biofeedback, smart earphones and glasses for perfect recall and anticipation..."
"Long term? I've joked before about a transcranial magnetic stimulation helmet that would walk my legs to work and this is the cyborg direction of travel: nootropics, CRISPR gene therapy, body modification and slicing open your fingertips to insert magnets for an electric field sixth sense. But you can see the cyborg paradigm in action with hardware startups today trying to make the AI-native form factor of the future: lapel pins, lanyards, rings, Neuralink and other brain-computer interfaces..."
Near-term cyborg development emphasizes wearables and body-integrated devices that extend perception, memory, navigation, and biofeedback. Examples include AirPods transparency mode, AI glasses that return answers as audio, smartwatches, rings, earphones, and glasses aimed at recall and anticipation. Long-term cyborg approaches include nootropics, gene therapy, body modification, and neural interfaces such as Neuralink. The alternative vision centers on augmenting environments with room-scale, multimodal, programmable spaces that accept voice and gesture input. Examples of the room paradigm include Dynamicland and MIT’s Put-that-there research, which prioritize place-based computing over person-based computing.
Read at Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
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