If you could become a genius in one subject, what would it be?

[Sole-Warrior]

New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It's the kind of thing seen in Hollywood's "Matrix" franchise.

Experiments conducted at Boston University (BU) and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, recently demonstrated that through a person's visual cortex, researchers could use decoded functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to induce brain activity patterns to match a previously known target state and thereby improve performance on visual tasks.

Think of a person watching a computer screen and having his or her brain patterns modified to match those of a high-performing athlete or modified to recuperate from an accident or disease. Though preliminary, researchers say such possibilities may exist in the future.
December 8, 2011

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Suppose in the future, it becomes possible to become an expert in a field by downloading skills and knowledge into your mind with some kind futuristic technology, what skills would you choose? A visual artist who is great at painting? A 3d modeler? A fast reader? Or a field in science?
What would your second choice be?

I am already pretty competent at drawing and painting.
I choose programming, or a skill that could aid in the creation of virtual reality, as a programmer could create a program that would be used to create virtual realities automatically generating baroque style architecture without the huge laborious efforts needed. A PS4 game that auto-generates worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtmEjqzg7M
It would be pretty sweet to be able to create a program that could allow for auto-generated realistic virtual realities, that also allows it's users to select specific styles of architectures, trees, plants and virtual animals to be auto-generated. This would allow greater freedom for the user to personalize their creations.

[Anastacy]

Grammar.

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[Wildtree]

Musician....
Playing keyboards like Rick Wakeman, Guitar like Ritchie Blackmore, Drums like Neil Peart, and Bass like John Entwistle and I am happy.
Actually, I'd settle for just one of them...

[Cosmic Janitor]

Didn't we have the exact same thred 1 week ago?

[chrisnumbers]

Astrophysics.

[Wildtree]

Didn't we have the exact same thred 1 week ago?

I had a Deja Vu feeling too lol

[ThatGuyYouMayKnow]

I'd say, people.

[Deleted]

Computing, as in AI and robotics, create my own army of robots, kill everyone smarter than me then technically I become a genius in all fields... only issue being I may be the only human left...

[RH92]

A drummer with rhythm understanding of Gavin Harrison and technique of Jojo Mayer. I would leave alone my own creativity and feel though, I don't want to be a copy. However the amazing groove of Benny Greb is tempting too.

[Bathory]

Psychopharmacologist/psychiatrist


...fear based experiments.

[Agnar]

Gambling and counting cards. Get that money. Assuming they don't find me, take me out back and beat the shit out of me.

[Very Tired]

Basket Weaving.

[Pull My Finger]

Musician....
Playing keyboards like Rick Wakeman, Guitar like Ritchie Blackmore, Drums like Neil Peart, and Bass like John Entwistle and I am happy.
Actually, I'd settle for just one of them...

It's not as if it was this unreachable goal.

OK, Neil Peart is tough. One can get down the technique, but the genius of that man is simply his personality and imagination.

[Mister Cheese]

Math. That covers a lot of fields so I'd have a lot of flexibility.

[Osoroshii]

Art.

I've always been amazed at the people who can take a pen and pencil and draw the super-detailed, lifelike images that almost look like a photograph more than a drawing. I see so many things in my head, especially when I'm writing, but I lack the ability to even draw a -semidecent stick figure, let alone complex scenes and images.

Beyond my personal wants for such a skill, I'm sure I'd be able to find work as a conceptual designer or artist for a movie studio or game developer.

[Lemons]

I would become a genius at social interaction. If you're good at manipulating people you can have pretty much whatever you want in this life.

[Cosmic Janitor]

I would become a genius at social interaction. If you're good at manipulating people you can have pretty much whatever you want in this life.

You won the thread.

[Kellhound]

Propaganda

[Deleted]

Business. My second choice would be Physics but then Tesla was really bad at business and died poor as dirt even though he was a genius in physics.

[zubaja]

Programming skills; would make my job and hobby so much more easyer. Primarily reading someone else's code: THE HORROR!