We will be able to read Deaf people's minds. Literally.
In the near future, in a decade or more, we will have seen our technology progress to the point where we will be able to read brain waves in order to manipulate the movement of machines.article
Logically, that means we will be able to read the minds of Deaf people! Deaf people will be able to communicate telepathically. It is very simple when you think about it.
I am working on research that will enable the computer to automatically recognize sign language. Sign language uses gross body movements. Research on the manipulation of remote machines using the brain is rapidly progressing. As the article says:
"Picture a monkey sitting with his arms bound behind his back and a helmet of wires covering his skull. The wires connect a computer to dozens of tiny sensors called microelectrodes that were surgically implanted in the animal's brain. Over and over again, the monkey reaches for and feeds itself chunks of zucchini using a robotic arm that is powered by signals from nerve cells in its primary motor cortex -- the part of the brain that controls movement.
"This deceptively simple demonstration of how complex thoughts can be captured and translated into action by a computer is the culmination of a decade of research by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine neurobiologist Andrew Schwartz that could change the lives of people with neurological disorders."
So, if we will be able to create prothestics that will do as a good job as our original limbs, controlling them by mere thought, we will be able to enable a deaf person who lost both arms to sign. Conversely, we would be able to "track" a Deaf person's signing - then transmit to the viewer. I do not know if we will be able to directly input signals into the brain. My grandchildren probably will, but for now, we can use virtual reality viewers to telepathically communicate with one other. You would simply think of what you want to say; you will visualize what you want to sign, and that would be detected by the computer!
This technology is inevitable. I would much rather to be on the side where we develop the technology, so I won't ever lose control of my freedom of thought! ;-)
Logically, that means we will be able to read the minds of Deaf people! Deaf people will be able to communicate telepathically. It is very simple when you think about it.
I am working on research that will enable the computer to automatically recognize sign language. Sign language uses gross body movements. Research on the manipulation of remote machines using the brain is rapidly progressing. As the article says:
"Picture a monkey sitting with his arms bound behind his back and a helmet of wires covering his skull. The wires connect a computer to dozens of tiny sensors called microelectrodes that were surgically implanted in the animal's brain. Over and over again, the monkey reaches for and feeds itself chunks of zucchini using a robotic arm that is powered by signals from nerve cells in its primary motor cortex -- the part of the brain that controls movement.
"This deceptively simple demonstration of how complex thoughts can be captured and translated into action by a computer is the culmination of a decade of research by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine neurobiologist Andrew Schwartz that could change the lives of people with neurological disorders."
So, if we will be able to create prothestics that will do as a good job as our original limbs, controlling them by mere thought, we will be able to enable a deaf person who lost both arms to sign. Conversely, we would be able to "track" a Deaf person's signing - then transmit to the viewer. I do not know if we will be able to directly input signals into the brain. My grandchildren probably will, but for now, we can use virtual reality viewers to telepathically communicate with one other. You would simply think of what you want to say; you will visualize what you want to sign, and that would be detected by the computer!
This technology is inevitable. I would much rather to be on the side where we develop the technology, so I won't ever lose control of my freedom of thought! ;-)
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