"Like the rise in cosmetic surgery, use of cognitive enhancers is likely to increase as bioethical and psychological concerns are overcome," opined Nature in a commentary.
In the survey, 80 percent of all the scientists -- even those who did not use these drugs -- defended the right of "healthy humans" to take them as work boosters, and more than half said their use should not be restricted, even for university entrance exams."
I wonder if they will start calling scientists in front of congressional committees to answer probing questions about their performance enhancing brain juice? Will the map of the human genome have an asterisk if it's found that it was done under the enhancement of drugs?
The future is now. In the 1940's Steve Rogers takes the super soldier serum and becomes the superhero Captain America. Sixty years later baseball players and scientists are enhancing their abilities with drugs to superhuman levels.
The drug culture of the 1960s can draw a line directly out of Alice in Wonderland a hundred years earlier.
Beyond proving the infinite possibilities available to our futures by way of our presence--this type of thing shows how ideas and words can subconsciously direct a people's will. Magic! It was no mistake that Lewis Caroll(if that is your real name, sir?!) was a member of the Society of Psychical Research whose charter goal was " to understand "events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal by promoting and supporting important research in this area" and to "examine allegedly paranormal phenomena in a scientific and unbiased way."
Here's crazy old Alan Moore saying these things(sans the bit about Lewis Caroll(at least explicitly), which must mean it's true:
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