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The ability to use BCI != ability to access your thoughts. The technology doesn't, and probably won't for a long while yet, for the latter to start with. Facebo
by lordCarbonFiber 10y ago
The ability to use BCI != ability to access your thoughts. The technology doesn't, and probably won't for a long while yet, for the latter to start with. Facebook already has access to active user's thoughts, moods, and emotions anyway; they share them willingly and in a much more machine friendly fashion than brain waves.
Brain enabled typing is going to be the future of hands free devices, and you're better off trying to beat them to market than lamenting the "evil facebook boogieman".
- johnsonjo 10y agoI agree this does look like a very good technology for hands free communication. I'm still worried about the possible cons. So, do you think it would likely take more than a software update for it's ability to access your thoughts? Because, even if the technology isn't quite there yet if they can just somewhere down the road update these things over the air with these capabilities it seems a little frightening.
- cs702 10y agoAh yes, except that (1) people who use such an interface will meld with it, and (2) we're talking about brain sensors on you.
- lordCarbonFiber 10y agoMost input sensors are "brain sensors" in the most reductive sense. There's nothing spooky about brain sensors. You can buy them today, as meditation tools. I have a long running personal project thread to to use mine as a typing interface. It's 100% possible with current technology and not in the least bit dystopian. Interested parties can read your thoughts much more reliably by just parsing these public posts than trying to build a model to get something more specific than "discrete input A" out of brain waves.