The idea of embedding a chip in my brain isn’t quite my jam. I’m thinking more on the lines of imprinting memories through technology. I also think being permanently connect to the internet is a bad idea. Humans are so damn inquisitive that they would more than likely become extreme introverts and over time we would lose the things that make us uniquely human. Case in point, empathy. The internet/social media has already greatly hindered our ability to be face to face with someone when we communicate and by doing so it greatly reduces our ability to develop empathy for someone who holds a completely different point of view than our own. I think that’s a large part of why we see so much ugliness in comment sections/text messages etc.. But on the other side of that I can see great benefits in being able to imprint memories. One of the biggest obstacles I see is how that technology would be divvied out. It seems to me it would have to be open source for it to be beneficial to all. As far as being lazy goes I think it would be about what you did with that knowledge to determine laziness. Also, more than likely we would see many more people excel in their fields because they would have been able to try many things out that normally would have been time prohibiting to achieve the education to work in that filed. That means we would probably see a paradigm shift from looking at people’s education to looking at people’s aptitude’s. So it might actually cause productivity to skyrocket and in effect cause people to be less lazy because they are now being judged on what they do with their knowledge and less on just having the knowledge.