This seems like something right out of science fiction:
The possibilities for helping people seem virtually endless. (See this post from yesterday, for an example.)
This story will be directly relevant to people interested in “Mormon transhumanism.”
Of course, there are also — as there always are when morally problematic humanity gains access to a new technology — reasons for concern. Superwarriors? Computer-enhanced thugs?
There’s virtually no end to the evils for which humans can put use new abilities. I’m told, for example, than researching family history is one of the two most popular activities on the Web. The other is accessing pornography. And, of course, while television has now begun to fulfill Brother Philo Farnsworth’s dream of making Shakespeare and symphonies available to every home, it’s long since demonstrated its capacity for transmitting brainless and morally vacuous fluff in vast quantities.
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