Today's muse, Toyota's brain wave controlled wheelchair was demonstrated to the press yesterday. The breakthrough here, according to AP, is the wheelchair's ability to change direction within 125 milliseconds of the generation of a specific brain wave, which is near instantaneous. AP also mentioned Honda's work in this area, where a thought of moving a right hand was translated into a robot lifting its right hand after several seconds.
In researching a domain name I was interested in a couple of weeks ago, I came across an Australian visual artist, Karen Casey, who is working on creating visual art using brain waves of people all over the globe, collected through the Internet, and in some cases projected live to large outdoor screens in different countries . Although this is a work in progress for now, the concept is fascinating, and the result could be truly stunning, leading I suspect, to outcomes that might even surprise and delight the artist herself. GlobalMindProject.com will launch shortly with an official project launch in October, stay tuned....
Given the technology leaps of the last say, 500 years, it is hard to image what the "global mind" will look like in the year 2509. Probably the wildest science fiction that we can think of today, might just begin to describe the reality of 2509. I can't resist just a couple of speculative thoughts on the 2509 landscape:
- Wi fi will not connect our laptops, it will connect our brains;
- we will be able communicate with our friends and co-works without talking or writing;
- keyboards will have gone the way of the Model T;
- personal privacy discussions will morph into thought privacy discussions;
- the term "mindshare" will take on whole new dimensions;
- countries may begin to be defined, not by geography, but by mindography.
In researching a domain name I was interested in a couple of weeks ago, I came across an Australian visual artist, Karen Casey, who is working on creating visual art using brain waves of people all over the globe, collected through the Internet, and in some cases projected live to large outdoor screens in different countries . Although this is a work in progress for now, the concept is fascinating, and the result could be truly stunning, leading I suspect, to outcomes that might even surprise and delight the artist herself. GlobalMindProject.com will launch shortly with an official project launch in October, stay tuned....
Given the technology leaps of the last say, 500 years, it is hard to image what the "global mind" will look like in the year 2509. Probably the wildest science fiction that we can think of today, might just begin to describe the reality of 2509. I can't resist just a couple of speculative thoughts on the 2509 landscape:
- Wi fi will not connect our laptops, it will connect our brains;
- we will be able communicate with our friends and co-works without talking or writing;
- keyboards will have gone the way of the Model T;
- personal privacy discussions will morph into thought privacy discussions;
- the term "mindshare" will take on whole new dimensions;
- countries may begin to be defined, not by geography, but by mindography.
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