Accelerating Human Progress

Progress. The word means different to different people, since no two persons can have the same level of ease and difficulty in life. It's a matter of personal perception of this term. From the time we are learning the happenings around us, we are keeping a log of every development that we have made. As our ancestors learnt to hunt, they taught this to their children, and thus the technique of hunting passed on. Later, humans developed other skills, which too were passed on to the upcoming generations. And this process is still continuing. The things that our grandparents learnt, they taught them to our parents. Our parents similarly taught them to us. By sending us to school, then college, they wanted that at least we should learn everything that they know (like ethics, moral values, manners, etc.). Then we start doing new things and preserve our new learnings, so that we could also do the same with next generation, like our parents did. The next generation will also do the same as that of us, i.e., they will learn everything that we have learnt so far (the basic things), and then develop new things.

All this process of learning and passing it on has made the human species come so far in the field of development. But, it seems to be a slow process. Since the new generation has to learn everything from the beginning where their parents had started when they were new to this world. It may take near about the same time to learn those basic human skills as it took for the previous generation. Although this time duration is decreasing generation by generation, but it is decreasing with a slow pace. And due to this, the speed of human development is slow, though we may think we are developing faster.

Actually, the main reason of this slow pace is: repeating the same process of the same learning with new generation, for the almost same time duration. This is not a major problem, or I'll say this is not even a problem. But if something couldn't be done for this, then we may lose much of our time in repeating, which may prove not good for the future of human progress. Till now it is clear what I really want from us. Instead of making the newly born to go through the same process of learning from the basics to human skills, we can do the same quickly when child is in the mother's womb. Just putting all those learnings of both the parents in a single, slim, easy to digest, tasteless, non-toxic, and directly affecting the infant's brain in the womb; a chip - or whatever you may call a human memory information storing device having all the features specified earlier. And then somehow making this information go into the developing brain of the child (by directly swallowing or by other medical means), so that when birth of child occurs, all those qualities (mental) are pre- programmed in the brain of the infant. This may even surprise people, as the infant might be able to talk, walk, or do everything that a normal child takes a particular time duration to learn.

And also instead of just putting the mental learning of parents in the chip, a default set of skills and knowledge can be created and copied into a large number of such chips, and the choice between the default and the customized chip would be upon the parents who are going to give birth to a child.

This process will help humans to achieve new heights, as that particular time duration will not be wasted in learning the same thing that humans have already learnt. Those additional years will give more time to humans for research and development. Therefore, the graph of human progress, which earlier had been a straight line with positive slope, will become an exponentially increasing graph; leading to the acceleration of human progress.