If one could download books directly into their brain’s memory center with a high level of comprehension, then regardless of your command of the language, the best choice would be to start with dictionaries. This is so that you’d comprehend every word of each subsequent book that you download. The rate of evolution with this ability alone, would be staggering to say the very least. This one is probably the most basic benefits that would sell me on it.
Getting more controversial would be sharing memories, emotions, and telepathic communication, up to the point where one day you’d be able to download an individual’s entire lifespan and add it to yours, instantly doubling your experiences, and radically altering your perspective.
We would evolve so fast, that it’s practically incomprehensible to think about. I’d be willing to do it, but not until it became advanced enough to reach that most basic level of downloading books directly into the mind. Simple hands free typing isn't a big enough selling point, especially considering the potentially unknown risks one might be subjecting themselves too.
One real creepy thing to contemplate is this, in order to have full comprehension of downloaded experiences, then the program would have to be run once. So in running that program, lets say it's someone's summer vacation. It might only take a second to run the program, but during that second while it's running, it would feel like you are doing the vacation in real time.
Who's to say that the singulairty hasn't already occured? You could be someone's 2.0 progenyself who is currently running the program called Cg. A man who donated his brain to the singularity project, after upgrading to a better form of memory storage. Or you could be your own great great great great grandchild who has been surfing the neuralnet, exploring his family tree. What if adding lives is common place in the future, like watching netflix is today?
Woah! I wish I had seen this when you originally made the comment :-)
I like that idea, a lot! That would give me so much joy, to think that my brain was running in a simulation, or I'm my own descendent, thank you @thoughts-in-time for sparking off a thousand thoughts, that will one day become Steemit musings :-)
Cg
I'm not the best writer, but I did a couple of short stories on this topic if you're interested.
Simulated Recall, or Do Androids Have Nightmares?
Henry Johnson was Going to Die, but he Went on to Live Forever.