Hot damn! This brings us one step closer to the dream of literally being able to read every thought that momentarily flashes through any connected person's head the instant it occurs. No more typing "Gonna eat some soup." into a clumsy hand-held device -- now it will just type itself. Awesome.
Now if they could work on perfecting a brain interface on the receiving end, so I can see a text-crawl of all my Facebook friends' brain-tweets scrolling at the bottom of my field of vision, that would be perfect.
Imagine: if self-censorship occurred somewhere in the synaptic chain related to the expressive use of our physical bodies, our minds, unfettered by limbs and digits, would unleash our secret truths.
Once strapped into his stylish helmet, the Badger-fan would be a helpless passenger, as his psyche took the wheel and Twittered away all his innermost fears and longings:
GO TO HELL, DAD. YOUR ASS IS FAT. FUCKERS SHOULD HAVE GIVEN ME TENURE. HOLD ME AND TELL ME IT WILL ALL BE OKAY.
The torrent would continue until his super-ego ran dry, he lost consciousness, or he managed to unplug the machine with his foot.
Imagine: Twitter suddenly rendered interesting? Or does twittering already reveal honest streams of consciousness?
I’m off to make some soup. Go Badgers.
As with most technological breakthroughs, it promises to be something of a mixed blessing; On the plus side, this is basically telepathy, and it's hard for me to deny that as such it's pretty cool. On the down side, it's a form of telepathy that will likely be accompanied by emoticons.
In fact, I foresee the development of an entire new vocabulary of emoticons, designed to convey translated sub-verbal impulses occurring in the nether regions of the amygdala and hypothalamus. These new icons will graphically convey everything from "Fight or Flight!" to "my ankle itches."
Posted by: flamingbanjo at April 22, 2009 04:39 PMEmoticons (god, I hate that word) are only forgivable if they are utterly unusable.
Surrounded by Zombies (x(x_(X_x(O_o)x_x)_X)x)
and Cheerleader Attacked by Shark _/\_*\o/*__
are okay. Oh, and the symbol for "pooping back and forth into each other's butts, forever" from the movie Me, You, and Everyone We Know is fine. ))>((
People should work that one into conversation more often, actually.
Happy Birthday - Yo!
Posted by: COMTE at April 25, 2009 05:24 PMThanks, man!
Posted by: flamingbanjo at April 25, 2009 06:36 PM