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“So why haven’t we found a reliable, nontoxic technology for
inducing the experience of ecstasy?”
“The wonder is that we’re still relying on archaic, millennia-old
techniques of ecstasy at all. In an era of wireless Internet
access and similar wonders, you’d think we’d have come up
with something better than drums, flashing lights, and ingested
plant alkaloid derivatives. Look at it this way: Ecstasy is
one capacity of the human brain; computation is another. With
computer technology, we’ve expanded our computational capacity
several billionfold. Isn’t there some way we could use our
brains—or our brains augmented with computer technology—to
expand and control our capacity for ecstatic experience?”
Exploring the question further…
“I recently took this question to an eclectic group of digerati,
science writers, and fringy, imaginative thinkers. None of
them, it turns out, is working on an ecstasy machine or knows
of anyone who is.”
We know who is.
“It could be doable, was the general consensus, and in a market-driven,
technology-obsessed culture, what’s doable tends to get done.”
And it has!
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A working prototype of that so-called non-existent system does
exist, right now, in a California design studio. Its creators anticipate
the coming together of insightful partners and investors, to help
bring this gift to the masses.
| The full text of this Forbes Magazine article
is presented here: The
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