Aug and Naug
By Daniel Miessler on May 31st, 2008: Tagged as Future | Technology
In the future, after we’ve started integrating computers into our brains to enhance them, we’ll develop a concept of aug and naug (augmented, non-augmented), pronounced and likely spelled: og and nog.
The terms will apply to the measure of human mental achievement, specifically to specify whether a particular mental feat or accomplishment was attained with or without the help of computers.
Jason: Hey, I scored a 2043 on my MART exam today…
Daniel: Nice, but that was aug, right?
Jason: Yeah, no shit. If I did over a 2000 naug I’d be a God.
These terms are likely to be adopted for a few reasons:
- They clearly describe the concepts of natural vs. supplemental
- They’re both only one syllable
- The “n” sound in front of “naug” or “nog” is fairly easy to differentiate from “aug/og” when spoken