A Facebook project that uses brain waves to communicate?

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

Building 8 is a "research division that Facebook created last year [and] is developing “brain-computer interface” technology that sounds a lot like the telepathy of science fiction movies."  wrote Alex Heath from Businesses Insider on the 12th January, 2017.

 

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"One day, I believe we’ll be able to send full rich thoughts to each other directly using technology. You’ll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too if you’d like." Mark Zuckerberg once said.

 

If as Neil Harbisson says "Art also lies in the creation of our own senses" and considering that he is an artist who paints in the medium of sound. It would be this type of art form that may be a little closer to something that I would be willing to share to the world across an open internet connection. But how to turn down the type of "click-bait" headline and editorial skepticism as below for it to become acceptable to all is unknown to me. 

 

Alternative headings;

Have you synced your brain waves to the cloud today?

Mark Zuckerberg reveals plans to eliminate all free thought (Begs for a constitutional validation of purpose).

Mark Zuckerberg reveals his plan to accommodate free brain wave transfer to a private network (Terminator style "Skynet" neutral net-consciousness).

Mark Zuckerberg wants us all to communicate in a more simple neural neutral instinctive manner (Will the true "religious zealots" please stand up).

Source: thenextweb.com

Original source: businessinsider.com.au

 

Nb. Just in case you are feeling the *love and not the *hate  -click here- for Facebook's Building 8 current career opportunities.

[FRN]

good feature.. kinda scary too.

[sazrocks]

I would like to be able to choose what I communicate with anyone else, so no thank you.

[jagdtigger]

It needs to be banned ASAP...

[haloharry97]

On 1/12/2017 at 6:34 AM, jagdtigger said:

It needs to be banned ASAP...

what needs to be banned this forum?? or facebook? 

 

[matrix07012]

[Misanthrope]

People on Facebook use their brains? Not on my fucking feed.

[jagdtigger]

3 hours ago, matrix07012 said:

Just a little help for you to imagine why i wrote that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online

 

After they understand how our brains work the next step will be to influence us...

[Doobeedoo]

I'm sure many are prepared to give them selves to network overlords.

Psychopass.

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

On 19/01/2017 at 4:39 AM, Doobeedoo said:

I'm sure many are prepared to give them selves to network overlords.

Psychopass.

 

Putting my tin foil hat aside momentarily, the assumption could be made that if the actual communication by brain waves is not a pay-per-use service then you will have to assume that this is Facebook's newest arrow in the quiver for their "free-to-use internet social experiment" project.

[Energycore]

On 1/11/2017 at 10:15 PM, SydneySideSteveSomewheres said:

Building 8

That sounds like the bad guys straight from an action movie

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

23 hours ago, Energycore said:

That sounds like the bad guys straight from an action movie

Here "8" when sending an SMS text is a substitute for the four characters of mate (sometimes used as m8 depending on the level of laziness of the writer!) which for me adds a type of visualisation in much the same way it would for a someone doing a parapsychology remote viewing. 

 

During the Cold War (1970-80's) the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) had a 20 million dollar funded ESP research program which was utilised by the CIA, NASA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Army and Air Force Intelligence that Russel Targ was a part of for 23 years.

 

This is not New Age as it is a type of research that has been going on for a while. Published in academic journals such as The Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and Nature magazine.

 

Links:

Russell Tard a Doctor of Philosophy giving a TEDx talk entitled "Is ESP Real? in Hollywood sometime in 2013.

Tech Futures interview with a student scholarship winner who worked at Facebook for seven weeks Ana Landaverde’s Experience (for the job prospectors).  

ESP trainer for iPhone developed under a NASA support page [http://www.espresearch.com/iphone/]

 

[Trik'Stari]

And how long before they find a way to insert advertisements into your dreams?

[jagdtigger]

On 2017. 01. 12. at 0:47 PM, haloharry97 said:

what from this form or from facebook

 

The whole idea and the technology... It would be nothing but trouble.

[ZothOmmog]

I don't know if I want Facebook to be part of something like this.

 

And to think that Mark Zuckenberg could tap in and read what I send.

 

Brrr  

[Sauron]

That sounds more like the Matrix than telepathy

[HarryNyquist]

No thanks. I don't need Zuck knowing everything I'm thinking. 

[PlayStation 2]

Things that shan't be known to another person would be revealed if this actually came into fruition to the consumer.

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

8 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Things that shan't be known to another person would be revealed if this actually came into fruition to the consumer.

@Dan Castellaneta, what if the technology interface and integration did not combine that smartly, I mean let's face it Google (Cortana / Siri) voice search is a fantastic idea, but on-the-ground usage differs between somewhat on par and totally useless? Meaning that all you could do is send "thoughts or feelings" to change the colours displayed within an app or a single device which brings to mind a certain VR headset...?