Scadrial's Future of Unsealed Copperminds

[Trusk'our he/him]

We see in the of the Bands of Mourning that there are Unsealed Copperminds being traded across Scadrial. 

Honestly, this seems like one of the most expansive ways that culture and scientific progress will be shaped, even more so than the flying boats allowed by iron Feruchemy.

If you could gather a group of individuals, each with an Unsealed Coppermind, who would then go and research an assigned topic, you could have them store and give this knowledge with one specific individual who would gain massive amounts of information very, very quickly.

This could greatly speed up Scadrial's technological progress, as scientists could gather a significantly greater amount of knowledge on a subject much more quickly, allowing them to expand on that knowledge with greater speed. If you combined this with Unsealed Zincminds you'd be able to throw Scadrial to the forefront of technological advancement in the Cosmere (it kind of already is, but Roshar is getting there too, so they've got some stiff competition). 

It would also be interesting to see people who's job it would be to gather information in these Copperminds for the use of others and how they would go about it. Would they need to study the same topic twice so that they could remember it? Would special studying strategies need to be employed? How would they prevent their own idle thoughts, biases, and assumptions from accidentally slipping into a Coppermind along with everything else? That last one in particular seems like there could be some interesting complications.

[Zoey she/her]

I was always thinking it, it would also help greatly with medicine, and likely lead to things like transgenderism becoming very well known and respected on Scadrial, due to how Investiture-Based Healing in the Cosmere works. 

I do feel though that this is gonna be limited, given how Scadrial is currently in a period of deep corruption of the government and the wealthy elite. So they would likely take in all the metalminds they can for their own sake. Rather than distribute them amongst the people. So I feel that the effect would be more limited than it would be if they were more freely distributed.