I feel ya. My processing is broken & I have huge bottlenecks & memory leaks.
Wtb hardware for brain upgrades. Please send RAM, a solid state hard drive & new power source.
Oh if only brain upgrades were so easy.
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I used to follow nanotechnology, and pined for an upgrade. The way I envisioned experiencing it: I'd take a pill, which would contain nanomachines which enter my bloodstream, and then travel up to my brain.
Once there, they would convert it, in place, to a more efficient form. Back 20 years ago, Eric Drexler (of The Foresight Institute, and author of "Engines of Creation" and other books about nanotech) had written that a computer the size of a sugar cube would be more powerful than the human brain. So, my skull can contain many sugar cubes, and each interconnection makes it even more powerful, so I'd end up thinking perhaps a million times faster.
I'd sit in a chair, watching the ceiling fan (lived in Florida at the time) slowly reduce in speed, to almost not turning, as my processing was sped up.
Then, of course, there'd be two classes of people: those who sped up, and those who didn't. It would be almost impossible for those two classes to communicate! Who would want to wait a million years to hear the next word? :)
These days, I see my thought experiment as similar to "taking the chip" -- those who do so will be able to buy and sell. The rest of us will need to garden. :)
That's sometimes how I feel even now, only I speed up & blow a fuse & I have to work back to just being delighted to garden... Only that starts the cycle all over again. Basically my chip upgrade feels faulty & it's a lot of work fixing the electrical whenever I blow a fuse.
I don't know, maybe eventually our brain deficiencies will give us super powers. Too optimistic?
Also your reply would make a great premise for a book/movie/short story, etc.
Thanks. Re-reading it, it reminds me a little of Johnny Mnemonic -- which was woefully out-of-date as soon as it came out! Like Short Circuit 2 which @countrylover and I watched last night (and the first one, first!) -- at one point the robot says "I've got 500 megabytes of storage!" LOL.
Both movies were awesome in the re-watching though. I should make a post about them. Lots of stuff I missed as a child.