Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be … different.
Bottom line: Technology has not helped man to think better, and it won’t make him function better than the “unenhanced” human body in any fundamental sense. In fact, “hard” science is in unrecognized crisis today, across all fields, and is falsely leaning on still-expanding technology. Scientists don’t learn anymore, they just keep inventing new suppositions to cover new observations and thus keep their theories alive. That’s what Mr. Enrique is selling here — glib, glittery, empty suppositions that would stave off for yet another generation the internal pressures for self-correction of the current failing paradigm, whose effects we perceive all around us in vain, unending “debates”, which the “authorities” and “experts” all refuse to learn from. What the future will bring is hard correction, not painless “rebooting”. Man should know his limitations, and the fundamental source of all ethics: All of human science — all human endeavor — is only the reverse-engineering of prior design of the natural world (just as all learning is only remembrance, as Socrates famously taught). Read my blog for the new paradigm.