Performance-Enhancing Drugs
The New Yorker reports on what author Margaret Talbot calls “neuroenhancing drugs.” Some takeaways:
Where drugs like Adderall and Ritalin were once used to treat attention deficit issues, people are realizing that the drugs can improve anyone’s attention – allowing you to study all night long with excellent recall (among other feats of attention and memory).
Therefore: Can’t remember the name of your first period teacher or even what class you’resupposed to be at? Where once you might have thought “Dang, I need to sleep more,” the new line goes, “I need less sleep and more Ritalin!”
Is this really the new way to work and live, as the author suggests? Will we one day simply plug our brains into computers to learn – and to Tweet? This is certainly a start in that direction.
(Image Credit: Henning (HenSch))
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