Imagine This: Digital Reconstruction of Dreams
For a variety of reasons, we always wanted to know what was going on in someone else’ mind. We developed language of words for this simple reason — we wanted to express our thoughts. We always seek out the best way to express ourselves. We sometimes wish to speak our hearts out. But, all we can do in these situations is to blabber out a few words. We can only imagine how beautiful someone’s mind can be, however we always have to do away with those words again and that gut feeling.
Emerging technologies like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) are promising to make these possibilities real! This science might not just be disrupting the way we red our brains, but it will disrupt the way we communicate!
Here are 3 future scenarios that came to my mind when I read about these new technologies.
A Mindful Language!
We are already in a world where typing is more prominent than the spoken word. We communicate in emojis and memes. We like to draw out hearts rather than say, “I love you!”. In fact, in today’s world we communicate with people in more languages than we know of — thanks to Google Translations.
We like to draw out hearts rather than say, “I love you!”.
So, if we really have the capability to decipher our feelings and expressions that are going on in our minds, then, I am not really sure if we will even type out anything. The keyboards will become a passe. Written text will become an obscurity — anyways when was the last time that you wrote anything with a pen on paper? Languages will become rarer by the day and some of the most popular languages might even become extinct — that will be a concern for many.
…when was the last time that you wrote anything with a pen on paper?
What we will be communicating in will be a ‘Mindful’ language that will be understood and expressed by anyone with access to digital technologies. The digital divides might be painful, however, this unity of language will also evolve in this powerful digital world!
Inject-able Movies & Mind Pirates!
Movies have become short lived. The production costs have been rising. Piracy is on the rise. People don’t really want to watch what is being shown to them on television, they want to choose what they want to see on their televisions. And wasn’t television meant to be telepathically show us the vision of someone else?!
And wasn’t television meant to be telepathically show us the vision of someone else?!
All of this might change in the new world! The storytellers, the poets, the artists and the movie makers will be able to digitally record their creations. The production costs will fall down to the ground — what’s the cost to think up of a story? Pirates of such stories might become power — no money, no interest — or they might become much more powerful — entertainment will give them a chance to enter someone else’ mind. This will be that world of real immersion rather than sitting on a stupid chair that rocks and rumbles in a 5D cinema hall.
Solitude Networks
What has Facebook become in the world of today? What is WhatsApp? What is any other social network? It is network of ‘socially’ deprived human beings. We don’t want to connect to the people whom we are meeting up with the real world, we want to meet people who are farther and farther away. We are meeting up people with more than 100,000 friends and followers, but they might be having a solo drink in a bar. The more we are getting connected, the more we are losing real world connections.
A network of ‘socially’ deprived human beings.
In this new world of neural connections, we will go much further inside our solitude holes. And the further we go in, the richer and wider will be our connections with those sitting somewhere far out. We will have a world of solitude cafes where people will be just sitting, dreaming and connecting with a world that they will never see…
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These future predictions are based on my readings and in particular this video article by Aeon:
