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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 4626828" data-attributes="member: 553">We are using more than 100% of our brain in the modern age, as many people use devices on a daily basis for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_amplification" target="_blank">intelligence amplification</a>. That cell phone you've got with all those numbers, addresses, birthdays, meeting reminders... it's your brain's external memory, holding information which many people use to have to keep in their head, usually rather inefficiently, or written down on paper (writing being a form of intelligence amplification itself), also less efficient than most modern electronic methods. Besides the obvious enhancement to number crunching of complex formulas, the sheer amount of information available to the average person who sits down in front of a computer is staggering, and again, the quick access to that information starts to mirror our own biological information retrieval processes more and more, compared to older methods of researching a library, or accessing the memory of other humans through speech processes.As these information retrieval/organizing/computing devices become more portable, personal and powerful, they become increasingly integrated into our daily routines and habits, our thought processes. They become part of our way of thinking, until there's not much difference between making a decision based on recalling a fact from our neurological memory or our netbook. When we finally get the directly interfacing iBrain (tm), the process will be complete and there will no longer be any real difference between biological and manufactured electronic memory and information processing. Our brains will be have hitched a ride on Moore's Law and set to start increasing in power exponentially.All hail the coming <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity" target="_blank">Technological Singularity!</a></blockquote>

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