The information would probably be delivered raw into our minds. We’d just know what time it is, what the weather will be, who’s calling us and what the news are saying, without having to process the information.
Honestly I don’t think this is the way tech is going to go. Will it be possible? Almost surely. Will the average person get it? I seriously doubt it. I think it’s going to be one of those technologies that people talk about, that the tech bros hype up, but when it comes to real world implementation, I think most people would skip it for something a little more detachable. Ar glasses/contacts maybe. But actually having a surgical procedure to implement something like this seems unlikely to me.
What are the possible benefits of an integrated system as opposed to a removable one? That, will be the deciding factor, I think.
What would separate the contact lens users from the brainchip users, and how dramatic will the differences in capability be?
IMO if we ever get to a point that pulling information from the Internet is as simple as “remembering” it the same way we remember any other information, that could have both significant advantages over having to first read the data visually to ingest it, and terrifying potential to implant “facts” into someones mind.
Agreed. It’ll be like Ghost In The Shell. False memories, even entire false identities will be implantable. Instantaneous brainwashing completely possible.
Hm, I wonder if people will voluntarily give up some of their time/autonomy to alternative injected identities for money/power, sort of like the show Severance, or the people working as dolls in Cyberpunk.
Indeed not. You would get unskippable ads first.
It’s the likely eventuality, but it’ll be a long road to get there. The beta testing is going to be wild.
I wonder if hyperphants will still receive information in whatever senses they have overactive imagination in.
I have aphantasia, so I’m curious what the experience would be like for that as well.
Like if the whole thing is designed to evoke mental imagery rather than actual sight, what happens to those who don’t have that ability?
Maybe, but if it’s designed for a brain that works “normally”, the way a thought “works” (or is served up) might be incompatible.
For example, consider the prevalence of the phrase “close your eyes and picture X”, particularly in meditation and other relaxation techniques. I am incapable of doing this exercise (and for most of my life I was very confused by the phrase). Most people, from what I’ve been able to gather, are incapable of imagining a world without that inner picture, so why would they make the interface work for that deficit?
Maybe we aphantisians will get a version with mental voice narration instead of mental images, much like visual blind people have today for visual media and information.
I wonder how bad that would be when competing with the inner monologue… cuz my brain talks to me a lot.
