| Really fascinating article, and once again a reminder that hardware and software are two different animals with different timelines and processes. 2 humorous tidbits and 1 scary:
>>The eight in Building 8 represented the number of letters in Facebook. Its physical location was inside Building 59 on Facebook’s main campus in Menlo Park, California. So the Building 8 team is not actually at a building called Building 8, but Building 59? >>The exclusive invitations had arrived in the form of stainless steel slabs. To get into the event, attendees handed their invitation to a staffer, who put the slabs onto a machine programmed to cut the metal into a bottle opener. The staffer then handed back the bottle opener, along with a beer. Just... peak Silicon Valley. >>In early 2018, the remaining research projects were moved to Oculus Research, which has since been rebranded as Facebook Reality Labs, based in Redmond, Washington. That’s where the company is working on a brain-reading interface — a noninvasive wearable device that will allow people to type using their thoughts. The implications of this type of technology (especially used by FB) make me really uncomfortable. The ability to access, store, and analyze user thoughts is something that has the potential to be used in very wrong ways. Just another way to get even more specific and targeted user information, potentially information that I never intended on sharing with Facebook. What do other people think about this technology? Am I crazy? |