What if we could upload books to our brains?

Human brain might interface directly with non-biological forms of intelligence

What if humans could upload all the great classics of literature to their brains, without having to go through the arduous process of reading? Wonderful and levelling as that may seem, it’s a prospect that I’m not sure we should readily embrace.

A while ago, I listened to an interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s radio show StarTalk. Kurzweil described how our brains might someday interface directly with non-biological forms of intelligence, possibly with the help of nano-bots that travel through our capillaries.

Given how much faster this interface would be than regular reading, he went