Neuro rights advocates propose 5 additions to human rights: the rights to personal identity, free will, mental privacy, equal access to mental augmentation, and protection from algorithmic bias. Who owns the copyright to a recorded dream? What laws should exist to prevent one person from altering the memory of another through a neural implant? How do we maintain mental integrity separate from an implanted device? If someone can read our mind, how do we protect the read-out of our thoughts as our own?
Tag: hci
Tron Night Vision
The previous generation of night vision featured a greenish glow, because the images were generated by electrons traveling through a green phosphors tube. The Army’s new tech uses a white phosphors tube. Coupled with whatever secretive image-enhancing technology they’re using, the contrast in the rotoscoping-reminiscent images is startlingly good, and the resolution has been improved as well.
Monkey MindPong
Remarkable Neuralink progress. Raises all sorts of questions where this technology may be headed.
Unreal Engine car UI
It’s plausible that all interfaces at some point will be driven by game engines. Designed by the firm that does Marvel UIs. Still a crap car, but getting somewhere.
Thought Transparent World
China, India, Iran, Russia, Japan, USA and European nations are actively working to improve existing electroencephalography, magnetic resonance, functional infrared, and the magnetic encephalography spectrums to develop future military applications. The US Air Force believes BCI interfaces could provide faster reaction times for firing missiles, drones and guns.
Disabled Avatars
In December of 2018 I visited a temporary robot cafe, but it’s not the type of Japanese robot cafe that comes to mind to most. Rather than a robotic show, this was a cafe where the robot waiters were in fact avatars for people with disabilities, who remotely controlled them from their homes.
Hypocralypse?
Better tech for reading feelings and widespread hypocrisy, seem to me to be on a collision course. As a result, within a few decades, we may see something of a “hypocrisy apocalypse”, or “hypocralypse”, wherein familiar ways to manage hypocrisy become no longer feasible, and collide with common norms, rules, and laws. In this post I want to outline some of the problems we face.
New UIs
Enhancing color vision
We present an approach that can enhance human color vision by breaking the inherent redundancy in binocular vision, providing different spectral content to each eye. This technique represents a significant enhancement of the spectral perception of typical humans, and may have applications ranging from camouflage detection and anti-counterfeiting to art and data visualization.
Voice uncanny valley
there are a set of reasons why people want voice to be the new thing. One more that I didn’t mention is that, now that Mobile is no longer the hyper-growth sector, the tech industry is casting around looking for the Next Big Thing. I suspect that voice is certainly a big thing, but we’ll have to wait a bit longer for the next platform shift.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 