Many things in this world were not meant to be thought about too deeply.
The more you thought about them, the more terrifying they became.
In our world, some people had tirelessly pursued scientific research, especially in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Brain-computer interfaces had even achieved major breakthroughs, and some people had begun claiming that their experiments had been a success.
Of course, that was only at the ordinary scientific level. If those scientists knew that the outsiders had long since mastered this technology, who knew what they would think.
I asked the woman, "What about you? Do you have a chip like that in your brain too?"
She shook her head. "I don't need one. My own brain is enough. Besides, what would I do with so much knowledge? It's like how many people study—reading countless books and learning countless things, but how much of it will they actually use in their lives? Most people are ordinary people. Since they are ordinary, the scope of their lives and actions is only so large. Do you think limitless knowledge has any meaning to them? Take the people of Pompeii City, for example. They have extracted less than one ten-thousandth of the knowledge in those chips. Most of that information is completely useless to them."
What she said made perfect sense, just like college students in our world.
Once you graduated from college, entered society, and started working, you discovered that the knowledge you had learned from elementary school through university was rarely useful. Unless you worked in a specialized technical position, math, physics, chemistry, English, and the like were utterly useless.
Thinking of that, I gave a bitter smile.
"But most people in Pompeii City had to be implanted with that chip. That was why they had always been