[disgruntled101]

How long until programmers are forced to ditch antiquated methods of input like hands and keyboards in favor of streaming thoughts directly to your IDE? Can't wait to be forced by market forces to adopt such an interface and then promptly get ads streamed back or get brainhacked

[PicassoCTs]

That attitude will have to go, cause that space for that attitude is need for some upgrade. I dread this world. One could glimps it in the Firefall novels of Peter Watts. "Experts" who upgraded themselves into crippled "savants", able to outperform all baselines, but incapable of feeling there own fingertips.

One can already feel that pressure, regarding substance abuse to stay awake longer and perform better with amphetamines and be more creative with hallucinogenics.

Imagine having to sacrifice ever more parts of yourselves, to stay relevant. What a horrific freak-show we will become..

[soulofmischief]

> Imagine having to sacrifice ever more parts of yourselves, to stay relevant

The Little Gods by Jamie Wahls explores this very notion, in the context of a parent and her child, and how each respond to expectations of an augmented society.

http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/thelittlegods.ht...

[PicassoCTs]

That was a interesting read - thank you.

[beefield]

Don't know about you, but the thoughts in my head are such an unordered and incomprehensible mess that it is really hard for me to see any benefit of direct streaming. Typing the thoughts slowly down and rereading and evaluating consequenses multiple times is the only way to get any sense out from my head. And I like to think myself as relatively good thinker...

[goldenchrome]

All I can say is, I'm glad I'll be dead in a handful of decades.

[blisterpeanuts]

Suppose that while you're still around, a brain extension enables you to greatly extend your lifespan. Would you agree to the implant? Totally hypothetical, of course; I myself would not have a ready answer. But for paralyzed and nerve-damaged people, it seems to me adopting this technology would be a no-brainer, so to speak.

[goldenchrome]

I think they already covered that in The Matrix

[talmr]

What about other thoughts? Does my employer get access to those?

[PicassoCTs]

Only for advertisement and performance reviews. You will have to change who you are to fit into the company, im afraid..

[kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj]

> You will have to change who you are to fit into the company, im afraid..

As if you don't have to already? The false consensus paradox in corporations is overwhelming.

[disgruntled101]

Just meditate on your breath or play pazaak in your mind to distract the mind reading

[Mathnerd314]

I think it'll have to wait until a non-surgical BCI gets decent performance. The study in the article uses implanted electrodes - forced surgery would be a nightmare.