Facebook Working on Tech That Will Let You Type Texts, Emails, and Status Updates Using Your Brain

[JMacHack]

Misleading title; the real title should be "Facebook working on tech to datamine your thoughts"

 

[Analog Kid]

As though Facebook wasn't creepy enough already? Vaporware or not, mind reading and skin based communications do not telegraph the message "we respect your personal privacy boundaries"...

 

[djcerla]

"Facebook Working on Tech That Will Let You Type Texts, Emails, and Status Updates Using Your Brain" implies most people currently post status updates without using their brain

A totally fair assumption.

 

[fitshaced]

Twitter testing the same tech and expect no difference in tweet quality from the POTUS.

 

[NY Guitarist]

Whenever I go on Facebook my IQ automatically falls 30-50 points depending on what I read.

 

[ringoroo]

Yep, to much of effort to type cople of lines of status update!! It sounds perfect for an Wall-e world!

...but maybe it too could correct grammar

 

[kdarling]

Just wanted to say:

Many of the comments in this thread have been pretty funny.

Thanks for the grins! Really!

 

[5105973]

Good grief. If anything is going to get me into trouble, it's sending out my actual thoughts before they've managed to be filtered.

That is already a problem on FB.

They always tout how this will help people with disabilities when they want to promote tech that is creepy af.

This would be where I get off the ride...if I had not already done so.

 

[macs4nw]

Yes folks, digitally downloading the contents of your brain is coming in our lifetime I believe, and with it the last bastion of personal privacy will be lost forever, relegated by future generations to being a quaint notion of 'our primitive ancestors'.

Your soul will literally be an open book to anyone with a court order, or through the use of embedded covert Tech, and perhaps eventually, a commodity for sale to the highest bidder. Alarming? Disturbing? Definitely!

 

[thekev]

You'll be able to use it on your eyephone.

 

[BvizioN]

...but maybe it too could correct grammar

You mean like grammar nazy? Yah, thought so.

 

[kdarling]

Your soul will literally be an open book to anyone with a court order, or through the use of embedded covert Tech, and perhaps eventually, a commodity for sale to the highest bidder. Alarming? Disturbing? Definitely!

You're worried about the wrong user of this kind of tech.

Forget about companies and the government knowing how you think. So what. They can only physically torture you.

It's the fact that your WIFE will know, that is the REAL DANGER

- "Honey, do you think my sister is pretty?"
- "Are you glad you married me?"
- "Do I look fat in these jeans?"
- etc

Waterboarding by the CIA will sound like a vacation in comparison to the consequences of your wife being able to read your real thoughts.

 

[macs4nw]

You're worried about the wrong user of this kind of tech.

Forget about companies and the government knowing how you think. So what. They can only physically torture you.

It's the fact that your WIFE will know, that is the REAL DANGER

- "Honey, do you think my sister is pretty?"
- "Are you glad you married me?"
- "Do I look fat in these jeans?"
- etc

Waterboarding by the CIA will sound like a vacation in comparison to the consequences of your wife being able to read your real thoughts.

But, but, she can already know what I'm thinking, before I do lol.... claims I'm an open book.....

 

[Analog Kid]

Twitter testing the same tech and expect no difference in tweet quality from the POTUS.

"Signal not found. Please check your connection."

 

[iDento]

I'm really scared!!! I need a hug.