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Americans are also less accepting of implanted devices that would result in more dramatic rather than modest changes in the recipient. For example, the public is closely divided over whether an implanted device that improves a person’s mental functioning to a level equal to their current peak abilities would be appropriate or taking technology too far. By a ratio of more than two-to-one, people are much more likely to say that implanting devices that dramatically increase a person’s peak abilities would be taking technology too far.
More extreme effects of implanted devices to boost  | concentration are seen as taking technology too far  | % of USS adults who say an implanted technology device for improved cognitive  | abilities would abilities be appropriate/taking say implanted technology for improved too far if itmade cognitive a  | per son's abilities appropriate/taking  | Taking technology too far Approp riate use  | Farabove that of any  | 30  | 67  | human known to date  | Much better then their own  | 39  | 57  | peak abilities  | Equal to their own peak  | 50  | 47  | abilities  | Note Respondents who did not: give an answerare notshown.  | Source Survey ofU.S adults conducted March 2-28, 2016.  | "U.S Public Wary of Biomedical Technologiesto Enhance Human Abilities"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 