Dr Vinton Cerf and Alessandro Sorbello at the Press Conference
Question: I'm wondering though this meshing of technology with biology which seems to be something that a lot of futurists seem to be speaking about Richard Clarke schism speaks about trans humanism do you think this has potential to get out of hand to create. When the secure become an enhancement when does a wonder the lines begin to blur between technology which allows us to function normally and technology which enhances.
Dr. Cerf - This is an absolutely wonderful point I took a comment and a lot exactly along those lines in an earlier speech this morning. The question is whether we draw the line between repairing impairments and enhancing capabilities and I think the answer is I think we should not draw that line there is nothing that should stop us from taking that same technology that brings someone into the normal mainstream of hearing for example and actually allowing people to hear sounds that other people could not hear of there is nothing that would stop you from building a speech processor that actually except a signal from at 40 kHz for example and step it down into a preconceived range at the wrangle detect.
You could actually imagine the same sort of thing with ocular implants normally would be repairing blindness allowing people to see in the normal visual range.