{"id":52390,"date":"2017-04-20T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T01:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/facebook-literally-wants-to-read-your-thoughts"},"modified":"2017-06-04T06:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T13:14:35","slug":"facebook-literally-wants-to-read-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/facebook-literally-wants-to-read-your-thoughts","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Literally Wants to Read Your Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-literally-wants-to-read-your-thoughts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur brains produce enough data to stream 4 HD movies every second. The problem is that the best way we have to get information out into the world \u2014 speech \u2014 can only transmit about the same amount of data as a 1980s modem,\u201d CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At Facebook\u2019s annual developer conference, F8, on Wednesday, the group unveiled what may be Facebook\u2019s most ambitious\u2014and creepiest\u2014proposal yet. Facebook wants to build its own \u201cbrain-to-computer interface\u201d that would allow us to send thoughts straight to a computer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/facebook-literally-wants-to-read-your-thoughts-1794471569\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/facebook-literally-wants-to-read-your-thoughts-1794471569<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur brains produce enough data to stream 4 HD movies every second. The problem is that the best way we have to get information out into the world \u2014 speech \u2014 can only transmit about the same amount of data as a 1980s modem,\u201d CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. At Facebook\u2019s annual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52390","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58022,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52390\/revisions\/58022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}