Dr Cerf with the Media
Question: Who decides who gets access to this technology and capabilities? Is it solely determined by who can afford the technology? What implications are there for the society when you have soupy humans running around with?
Dr. Cerf - Well first of all let's not get too carried away out of so that all technology tends to be of the available to people who can find the way to afford it or in the case and my wife both of the implants were played by insurance policies and also the kind of technology we are talking about are not necessarily at the well named would trade a person who would be dangerous which is an implication of your comment.
We're not talking about cognitive implants if I were to write Kurzweil and I were telling you about the same deep similarities now I might be saying well that humans are computers are evolving very quickly and by 2030 there will be computers that will be capable of thinking faster than human beings. Personally I'm sceptical of this but if you wanted to worry about something you should worry about that rather than worrying about any plot that happens to be used to better capabilities that we normally inherit from our evolutionary trajectory as to who decides what it's availability that counts you could ask the same question of eyeglasses you could ask the same question in hearing aids you could ask the same question of clothing.
People who have access to better incomes and have more disposable incomes often get better treatment whether they get better information whether they get better health care that's not going to change.
It's been a fact of life for a long time.
Our objective in the objective of the Hear and Say Centre is to bring both the technologies and the use into reached for more people which is one of the reason that this expansion into worldwide is so important.