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BBC reports about new 'cognition enhacement' drugs. One participant in tests of these drugs says:
"During the test I felt very alert and I could focus very well on the problems at hand.
"I had no problems memorising rows of numbers. I felt pretty much that I was on top of my game."
Naturally, the BBC report focusses on the fact that the UK Government is:
assessing the impact of a new generation of drugs that are claimed to make people more intelligent.
and says that :
The UK Government is sufficiently concerned aboutto have asked an expert group to assess their impact on medicine and
their potential social impact.
In their constant quest to "balance" those who are excited by new developments, and those who are terrifed by them, the BBC quotes two members of the public:
One woman commented: "If, in the future, there are
cognition tablets for exams and I wasn't happy for my children to take
them, would I be disadvantaging them against those children that
actually take them?"
Yes. Yes, you will, just as those who oppose vaccinations endanger the health of their children.
Another comment was: "Who knows where we are going? In
the future do you want one of those dictatorial type states where we
have to take drugs to get better and faster to work longer hours?
The idea that getting smarter and better at generic job-like tasks might make people more dissatisfied with the system on offer, and more capable of rebelling successfully, is apparently off the BBC's radar (Well, duh).