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Are We Risking Our Ability to Think?

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Simon & Schuster: The transmission of knowledge from ancient wisdom to modern magic. If you had a little chip in your brain that could instantly read all of Wikipedia like Watson on that one jeopardy and you transmitted it to a contact lens, the person would look telekinetic. I think you and I may not get there with that technology.

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