I suppose this means that once this technology is perfected, our own dreams can be imaged and played back for us in waking life. People will be able to sleep wearing affordable neural-nets that connect to an app on their smart phone -- then they will be able to create viral videos on YouTube of their dreams and share them with the public to be commented on and rated.
It's stuff like this that reinforce my belief that everything we are used to right now will be completely altered within 5-10 years -- not just technology and its impact on our daily living, but our own conception of reality.
You can see the amazing footage of these "brain movies" here:
There used to be a popular joke among non-technophiles that they'd begin using e-mail once it was well out of the developmental stage and had achieved its potential — when a user could just speak his words into a handheld device that would type them out for him and then send them to the recipient in real-time, whereupon the recipient's device would real them aloud to him. One day, this would happen in the sender's own voice.
ReplyDeleteThe joke, in other words, was that the ultimate evolution of e-mail would be the telephone.
For last decade, we've watched as professional writers, artists, filmmakers, and other content producers have waned in significance, gradually replaced by amateurs anxious to share their own custom-made content for free (or for the attention in garners). If we really will be able to watch our own dreams in the future, are we just taking the long road to "inventing" the imagination? Should I hold off on watching television and reading stories until the technology has been perfected, and I'm able to imagine for myself?
Or are we misinterpreting everything?