Despite the advent of texting, humans still talk and communicate through speech quite a bit -- besides the average teenager, of course. Raising or lowering our voice is how we make ourselves heard, don't we?
Well, according to one crazy idea, speech as a form of communication maybe history by 2050, when humanity will only converse with each other through thoughts. No kidding.
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According to the Dubai Future Foundation and the UAE Government, humans will have a collective consciousness that will be part of our individual brains, and we will develop this capability just in the next couple of decades.
This collective consciousness is currently on display at Dubai's Museum Of The Future, which the city is organizing for World Government Summit, to give visitors a taste of what future technology will bring.
They're calling this future consciousness HIBA or Hybrid Intelligence Biometric Avatar. Sounds too futuristic, right? Given the fact that this massive consciousness will take on the individual personas of its users and exchange information between them like one giant mainframe and a web of thin clients seems like a script straight out of a sci-fi flick.?
Thought power
If you're wondering whether HIBA is the result of a cranky, delusional scientist, rest easy. HIBA took months of painstakingly original research conducted by the Dubai Future Foundation on the future of AI, which also involved interviewing dozens of experts in this field, according to Noah Raford, chief operating officer of the Dubai Future Foundation.
As per our report in January 2017, it is no secret that?Facebook is attempting to build hardware and technology that can read your mind and allow people to communicate by thoughts. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself hinted at it few years ago.
"One day, I believe we'll be able to send full rich thoughts to each other directly using technology," Mark Zuckerberg said during a June 2015 interview. "You'll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too if you'd like."
Working on a thought transfer technology
If Zuckerberg and Facebook are working on such a thought communication technology, surely we should entertain the idea of HIBA with an open mind, right?
Not shouting at the autorickshaw-wallah during the early morning commute to work post-2050 won't be as much fun as sending a thought into his brain. Oh well.