Facebook Is Secretly Trying To Read Your Mind, Let You Communicate By Thoughts
Building 8, Facebook¡¯s secretive new office where the social media giant¡¯s trying to build hardware that¡¯s literally out of this world. Facebook is building technology that can read your mind and allow people to communicate through thoughts.
Very little is known about Building 8, Facebook¡¯s secretive new office where the social media giant¡¯s trying to build hardware that¡¯s literally out of this world. Facebook is attempting to build hardware and technology that can read your mind and allow people to communicate by thoughts.
Says who? Well, not Facebook, obviously. But one look at the kind of people Mark Zuckerberg¡¯s trying to hire makes it quite evident. You don¡¯t need to be a mind reader to realise what Facebook¡¯s trying to pull out of its bowler hat.
Facebook¡¯s current openings for the Building 8 division seeks a PhD in neuroscience that¡¯s willing to work on a ¡°brain-computer interface¡± project from inception to final product within a two-year period, while another job opening calls for an engineer who can ¡°develop audio signal processing algorithms¡± for a communication and computing platform ¡°of the future.¡± According to a Business Insider report, the company¡¯s also looking for engineers to create breakthroughs in "novel non-invasive neuroimaging technologies" and reproduce "realistic and immersive haptic experiences."
Brain-computer interface seems to be a new area of push for Facebook as a company, and even CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hinted at the proposition as far back as 2015.
"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."
This is certainly not what non-invasive brain mapping looks like. Facebook has to simplify it!
It¡¯s unclear how exactly Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg plans to achieve this super ambitious goal, but lots of reports suggest that the work underway inside Building 8 is nothing short of the US DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) projects. As of now everything from complicated headgears with tons of sensors and wires sticking out of subjects¡¯ heads is how the human brain¡¯s activity mapping takes place. If Facebook is to realise its ambitions, it will have to think of novel non-invasive and uncomplicated ways of enabling brain reading or thought processing and communication. No pressure.
Excited or scared? *gulp*
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