Media
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Are you ready for a world in which…?
“Read-and-write” neurotech implants are a reality. A device can be implanted in your brain that both “reads” your thoughts and feelings, and also “writes” new, artificial thoughts and memories directly into your head. The first successful read-and-write implant intercepts and records 80% of data sent to the brain’s hippocampus, giving users close-to-perfect recall of anything Read more
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Floating like a bubble, numbing down
At one time or another, you’ve been fascinated by bubbles. Here now and poof! Gone. So you make them again and again and again. It’s as if your mind is numb from doing anything else but making bubbles until you are out of breath. Then you pause and do it one more time (again). The Read more
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Misleading stories
You need to be careful what you listen to repeatedly because you might eventually mistake the lie for truth. Take this marketing ploy as an example. Branding often involves retelling the same fictional story again and again, until people become convinced it is the truth. What images come to mind when you think about Coca-Cola? Read more
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Are you ready for a world in which…?
Facial recognition technology is a mainstream tool available to any individual or organization. Subscribers can tap into a database with hundreds of millions of faces indexed and clearly recognizable. Cameras are installed in most public and private spaces to take advantage of this technology, and a new ecosystem of apps emerges that integrates facial recognition Read more
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Are you ready for a world in which…?
Video-faking algorithms are so advanced that faked videos are impossible to distinguish from real footage. These algorithms can completely replace people’s faces and speech to make it appear they’ve said or done anything the author intends. With this technology, anyone can manufacture video “proof” to back up any claim. These video fakes flood major video-sharing, Read more
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