The World Egg
New worlds, new humanity

OK, so it’s been a while since I posted, and I’m trying to catch up with a number of things that I’ve bookmarked, and so I’m getting creative with the post titles…

Anyway, the BBC reports that researchers at Boston University have developed a brain implant that is able to read thoughts and translate them into machine-generated speech.

The article reassures us:

“There is a huge difference between a technique like this, which is able to pick up signals the subject wants to be picked up, and being able to delve deep into the mind,” says Professor John Dylan Haynes of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

However, it wasn’t all that long ago that the technology to control mouse a computer by thought alone also required a chip to be implanted in the brain - now, though, it’s a $15 accessory. In the same way, I suspect that this thought-to-speech technology will also rapidly become a cheap peripheral - and no doubt governments around the world will soon have black labs working on using them in combination with truth drugs…