Updated 2 years ago
This happened faster than I thought it would. That age-old philosophical boundary between your mind and your environment is about to become blurred. Your brain itself, with its 50 terabyte capacity, will be the new media platform. The future is looking very Philip K Dick.
This is a still image right now. The brain barrier has been breached, without wires or implants. You know video is right around the corner. So… add in another couple generations of processing power with Moore’s Law, dream recording and realtime mind reading and recording should be very soon, like 5-10 years in the lab, 10-15 years mainstream consumer technology (e.g., Sony Mindman), with the legal system about 5 years behind
Like any other disruptive technology, this opens up a Pandora’s Box.
Lot of questions.
Will it be admissable as evidence in a court of law, against perpetrators such as child molesters (think lie detector test, or the sexual arousal meter in current use)?
Will employers use this to screen applicants?
Will totalitarian governments use this to ferret out thoughtcrime?
What will privacy advocates have to say about this?
Will people who are dating demand access to each other’s thoughts?
Will we have passwords and/or encryption to our thoughts?
Will this be an entire new industry – Youtube on steroids?
Will celebrities make this a sort of Instagram, live feeding their very thoughts?
Will there be new celebrities created overnight, as we saw with Youtube?
Will this interact with facial recognition, so that all you have to do is think of someone’s face and you’ll get a name immediately?
How will this affect the art world?
Will people be able to livestream their LSD trips?
What will this whole new field of endeavor be colloquially called? I vote Mindstreaming.
What other technologies will AI and machine learning throw into hyperdrive?
