irl shower thought
Can’t wait to have my thoughts hacked. “Hey guys! I’ve just decided super-techno-fascism is a fantastic system and I’m so glad to be living under it. Cyber-Leader is great!”
Should be relatively simple to fuck with that interface though. After all, if you have access to the hardware, no system is truly safe. We’ll have enough tinkerers and thinkers that will probably come from the same rich core that gives us FLOSS developers, and they’ll have some real fun coming up with ways to fuck with anyone trying to read the machine.
I don’t want it to be real. My inner thoughts are fucked up, and I’d probably be imprisoned for those thoughts. I don’t act on them, but boy do they invade my brain.
Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.
Asimov wrote a short story about exactly that: Liar
The concept of direct brain interface is both exciting and terrifying.
We struggle to secure offline systems against determined attack, and my brain is not a test bed.So ready to have my brain messages harvested for ad targeting
No, that’s how you end up with the Borg.
You will be assimilated, resistance is futile. Your technology will be added to our own. Embrace the inevitable.
Would it be telepathy though?
You don’t need to be assimilated into technology to achieve telepathy.