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If you pay any mind to Ray Kurzweil (and myself), who has contemplated this at length, augmentation of our inherently limited biological vehicles (bodies) will allow for us to keep up. Now, imagining a hard drive wired into your brain may be too many steps for most people to accept at this point, but with a little abstraction you can see that we have already augmented our minds with a hard drive wired into our computers! Indeed you can see in your very post the profound effect computers and the internet has had on the accessibility of information; just a decade ago how long would it have taken you to figure out that 147 papers had been written?