Limitless, the movie, is explained by the following synopsis. A young writer has been down-and-out on this luck for several years. He has writer’s block, thus he cannot complete his half-finished novel. He is threatened with eviction from his apartment, his girlfriend leaves him, and he mopes around for days with dirty clothes and long, stringy hair. Then, by chance, he meets an old friend who gives him a new designer drug called NZT-48.  A single dose allows him to get his life on track. After a week, he achieves perfect recall of everything he has ever read during his lifetime! He cleans up his act, finishes his novel, gets his girlfriend back, and after a year he becomes a successful senator from New York. His brain is so enhanced that he can think fifty steps ahead of his enemies and competitors.

Although the movie Limitless is fictional, some aspects of these enhancements are possible today, and many more await us in the future. If you doubt this statement, consider the fact that during the 1950s, most people were convinced that traveling to the moon was nonsense, and the science to get there was many decades away. Or consider the fact that in 1900, four years before the Wright brothers first manned flight, flying was proclaimed impossible. Also in 1900, the buggy whip industry was considered a wise investment as no one imagined the advent of the automobile and the decline of the horse and buggy! [Read more...]