HRogge Wrote:about the perfect backup... yes, the Mind Tech has the potential to get there, but as Catgirl Industries discovered during its experiments, its not that difficult to notice that you are a backup in the long run because you lack all the muscle memory your have built up over the year. Mind Tech can induce knowledge skills, which still have to be preprocessed and cleaned up (or combined by using multiple sets of the same skill from different donors), but using it for an active skill (like melee combat for example), you will notice that you only got a part of the whole thing. So there will be still lots of research to be done in 2020 and the following decades.I did write a piece in another universe about this, involving cybernetic implants and "skillsofts". Yes, you could easily trash an average joe with no training on the street with a melee skill implant... but due to the compromises involved to make it work, anyone with "above white belt" training (even barely above washout but got through that part of Basic Training) would be capable of matching and most likely defeating you because they learned it properly.
I expect the language skill would have similar issues. Including knowing a slang term but having no flippin' clue as to how it's defined except in a vague sense... to the point of being unable to articulate its meaning in the language it's in. It would certainly be an incredibly useful "leg up" if you need to speak a language in a hurry, but don't count on it for your spy mission, as odds are it's going to take as long to "properly" integrate it as it takes many children to learn how to talk.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor