From yesterday's Washington Post article Putting a computer in your brain is no longer science fiction
Zoloth says one of the big risks of technologists funding science is that they fund their own priorities, which can be disconnected from the greater public good. Many people don’t have enough resources to fulfill the brain potential they currently have, let alone enhance it. “Saying that if tech billionaires fund what they want may inadvertently fund science for the larger public, as a sort of leftover effect, is a problematic argument,” she said. “If brilliantly creative high school teachers in the inner city, for example, could fund science, too, then perhaps the needs of the poor might be found more interesting.”
