Cognitive enhancers as common as coffee
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006The BBC reports on a study by UK organization Foresight that makes futuristic predictions in the brain health area. According to the report, scientists predict that healthy people, including children, might one day take drugs to boost their intelligence.
The Foresight report states: “In a world that is increasingly non-stop and competitive, the individual’s use of such substances may move from the fringe to the norm, with cognition enhancers used as coffee is today”.
But the availability of such drugs would open up a range of social and ethical questions, including whether it should be permitted for people to use them to gain advantage over others.How they should be monitored would also be an issue.
Additional information on the report is also available on the Foresight web site as well as this related article from one of the study’s researchers based at the University of Bristol.
