{"id":15720,"date":"2015-07-27T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15720"},"modified":"2017-04-25T03:55:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T10:55:32","slug":"telepathy-technology-is-coming-are-you-scared-rhodri-marsden-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/telepathy-technology-is-coming-are-you-scared-rhodri-marsden-the-guardian","title":{"rendered":"Telepathy technology is coming \u2013 are you scared? \u2014 Rhodri Marsden, The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mark<\/p>\n

Advances in the field of artificial intelligence are invariably greeted with concern about an imminent robot uprising. Similarly, when we hear about developments in the field of brain-to-brain communication, we imagine any number of outlandish scenarios: perhaps a government marching us unquestioningly into battle via a process of insidious mind control, or an erotic thought we had about a work colleague being unwittingly transmitted to our partner.<\/p>\n

When Facebook\u2019s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced this week during one of his regular Q&A sessions<\/a> that Facebook is working in the field of thought transmission<\/a>, we found ourselves momentarily transported to a horrific telepathic future. \u201cYou\u2019ll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be able to experience it too,\u201d he said, as people thought to themselves \u201cunder no circumstances do I want anyone to know the dark, unsettling images that flash through my mind on an hourly basis\u201d. We are troubled by that vision. But it\u2019s only a vision. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Advances in the field of artificial intelligence are invariably greeted with concern about an imminent robot uprising. Similarly, when we hear about developments in the field of brain-to-brain communication, we imagine any number of outlandish scenarios: perhaps a government marching us unquestioningly into battle via a process of insidious mind control, or an erotic thought [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2029,47,2030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-zuckerberg","category-neuroscience","category-telepathy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46251,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions\/46251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}