According to an article this week , Facebook is working on a way to "telepathically" enter text. If I wasn't sure before that Facebook had gone off the deep end, I am now. To me, this is almost the same thing as putting truth serum in our city water. Nobody would like the result. Technology is taking us down a road that we should not be traveling.
There are more than a few people who are irritated with Donald Trump's Tweets, but they are nothing compared to what we would have if text could be entered from the brain. Ever had a bad thought about your Mother-in-Law (not me) ? Ever think that public servant who sits behind the counter at Motor Vehicles is an idiot? Ever want to do physical harm to the kids playing that loud music at midnight on the weekend? Texting without thought produces a way to think those thoughts out loud.
We already have gone too far with social media in producing a generation of people who think they can say what they want anytime they want and it is OK with the world. This is how we get Kathy Griffin's escapade with a head of President Trump, which is still being sold on Amazon, comes to be and it is only the beginning as people put their computers in a mode to accept verbal inputs. Shoot first and ask questions later will take on a whole new meaning. Those thoughts will be looked at differently by people who read them.
I can see diplomats sending emails between themselves that start wars. I can see bullying take on a whole new meaning. I can see Facebook looking back at what they have done wondering how anyone could be that stupid. I won't let one of those automated response systems like Amazon's or Apple's Siri in my house. They will bring trouble with them, and the kind of trouble they bring is an inability to think and write.
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