Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is working on a neural interface for reading thoughts
The head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg recently gave a two-hour interview to Harvard University representatives about plans for the future. Questions were asked by Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Sittrain. At the very beginning, Zuckerberg announced that he plans to relieve himself of the burden of responsibility regarding the problem of personal data. Instead, an external commission will make decisions; Zuckerberg will not be able to challenge these decisions.
A second interesting statement was made regarding the neural interface that the company is developing. According to the entrepreneur, people need to be given the opportunity to navigate and navigate in augmented reality and virtual realities by the power of thought.
The Facebook leader described the device being developed (yes, this is no longer just a concept). It looks like a bathing cap, just a cap stuffed with electrodes. The system will analyze the electrical activity of the brain, as well as track the characteristics of the blood flow in certain areas of the head.
Further information will be analyzed in order to create an additional virtual or augmented reality management vector. In other words, a person’s thoughts and desires will become one of the tools for working with applications and the interface of 3D glasses like Oculus Rift. According to the developers, such a technology will significantly expand the capabilities of modern man.
In the modern world, we are surrounded by a large number of smart devices that interact with each other, but a person is almost always outside the cycle of interaction. The solution is the very “swimming cap” that allows you to read the electrical signals of the brain and "unleash the potential of human thoughts."
“The principles according to which our phones and computers work, the software, is significantly different from the principles of our brain and how a person learns the world,” Zuckerberg said. He said that he is a fan of technologies such as augmented reality - precisely because it will help complement the thoughts and capabilities of a person.
Among other things, Zuckerberg plans to create a digital layer of the real world. This system will be somewhat simpler thanproposed by Magic Leap, but still, the possibilities of the new items will be very extensive. Thus, augmented reality will help the engineer to control the operation of the elements of an airplane wing turbine that are invisible in the normal state. It will be enough just to direct the camera of a phone or tablet with a specialized application to the wing and everything hidden will become apparent.
For the first time, Zuckerberg spoke about something similar to neurotechnology in 2017. Then he said that his company was working on a system that would make it possible to print text “directly from the head”, five times faster than you can type the text “manually”. And it was planned to make this technology the lot of wearable gadgets, that is, it was considered as quite mobile.
