"Perhaps the biggest proponents of enhancement are the technology boosters known as transhuman­ists
Their goal is the voluntary, ethical use of technology to create humans with biological capacities enhanced far beyond those of people today
Leading transhumanist Nick Bostrom,
recognizes that the path may be neither fast nor direct. “The current medical system is built around preventing, diagnosing, curing, or alleviating disease
This doesn’t leave enough resources for developing those mind-expanding, mind-tweaking drugs
In the short term, I’d expect things will happen as they have hitherto: by the stretching of diagnostic categories, by increasingly profligate off-label use, by people seekin...

"Perhaps the biggest proponents of enhancement are the technology boosters known as transhuman­ists
Their goal is the voluntary, ethical use of technology to create humans with biological capacities enhanced far beyond those of people today
Leading transhumanist Nick Bostrom,
recognizes that the path may be neither fast nor direct. “The current medical system is built around preventing, diagnosing, curing, or alleviating disease
This doesn’t leave enough resources for developing those mind-expanding, mind-tweaking drugs
In the short term, I’d expect things will happen as they have hitherto: by the stretching of diagnostic categories, by increasingly profligate off-label use, by people seeking their own medicines from online pharmacies
There might be exceptions carved out for particular professions—soldiers and eventually air traffic controllers and surgeons. In the longer run, some countries—perhaps Singapore, maybe China—will start to promote cognitive enhancers to their own populations, and other countries may follow suit for fear of falling behind"