Heh, I have so little proper knowledge about stuff, I just keep making up words, to clumsily attempt to get my point across (Kind of like the Euclideon guy, whom I noticed you have seen; He has nothing that is new, really; It was all old stuff, back when he first surfaced several years ago, but he didn’t know this, nor the common vernacular, so he keeps steaming ahead, and just comes across as a pompous ass).
(/me have also a long history of repeatedly getting involved in drawn out arguments à la: -“A!”, -“No, a!”, -“I said A, you fool, a is preposterous!”, -“Sigh, how can anybody think A??? It is a!”, …, “Wait… aren’t a and A the same thing?” :P)
I am absolutely not about to put any mind interface device from Facebook, or Google, or Amazon, or any of those other ones, anywhere near my head, but I am excited about the prospect of every tiny village clinic in the world being able to afford a radiation free (EDIT: Not counting near infrared :7) tomography device.
I’m sure you are, or maybe even a “Med Bed” or a “Holo Bed”, that would be even better and already not new technology (you probably know it…) because why use just a diagnostic only device when you already have an all-in-one solution ?
But try to ask yourself, how could one be sure that such invasive systems are not integrated into a future technology without the user noticing? This thing has already started a long time ago and has been going in the last 60 years (at least), TV’s have it in a certain form, computer monitors too, mobile phones too, Wi-Fi routers also, television broadcasting equipment … I can direct you to a huge amount of patents that speak in detail with diagrams, some are even close to a century old, and which you can see directly on the US patent site.
To choose ? Yes… maybe, but if a handful of people out of 8 billion chooses, while the rest does not even know what they’re using, can’t even suspect it, cause it’s hidden (and maybe does not even want to know …) then I’m afraid there’s not much to choose from , unless some totally give up with what is put at the disposal of the masses, but still…this doesn’t solve the problem.
And BTW, I never said anything about the amount of your understanding, but only about the observer’s point to look at a particular thing, you probably know better than anyone else here that if the observer look at something with a particular mindset, the result of his experiment change (and his understanding too…)
Googled it, and the guy who came up set off so many snakeoil salesman, and technobabble alarm bells, that I could not stomach watching the the whole thing though, even though I usually find that sort of stuff (perpetuum mobile peddlers, lost high tech civilisations, etc) highly entertaining. :7
I don’t think Mary Lou’s technology, for one, can be miniaturised to the point you don’t know something is going on; You’d be wearing a helmet, rather than a pair of glasses – the emitters and receptors have to go somewhere, and reach all the way around.
The point it becomes dangerous, is where there is context to go with the biometrics, such as the classic, relatively harmless: “Hey look what just lit up; This guy got excited when he looked at that car - send him some ads!”, and so on, which is a place where the big data, and machine learning companies indeed already have us by the short hairs, since ages ago, even without the ability to look into your brain.
…and they have a tendency to make themselves indespensible, to the point you can’t opt out, without simultaneously shutting yourself out from the things you really want to get to: Many sites and other things use services from the big ones: Patreon, for instance, puts logging in using Facebook above their own independent account system - at least there one have a choice, if being mildly non-conformist, but the two-factor authentication application used by every bank in the country where I live, at one update was made dependent on Google Play services (for the android version of the app). -Don’t like it? Tough. :7
All this said, and with my tinfoil beanie firmly in place: I just so happen to be awaiting delivery of a pair of kickstarted headphones with EEG sensing built-in (for sleep tracking).
