Posting via telepathy

[afuna]

I'm beginning a campaign. This shall be a sticky post until the idea is implemented, or I get tired of campaigning for it, whichever comes first.

Title
Posting via telepathy

Short, concise description of the idea
Instant journal updates just by thinking of them!

Full description of the idea
Use telepathy to post to your journal; no need to type up posts. You'll never again have to worry about losing another entry just because you couldn't make it to a computer in time.

An ordered list of benefits

• no more discrimination against slow typers


• will help those with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome


• more accessible to those with assorted disabilities


• sometimes, you think of something brilliant to post but can't remember what it was when you sit down to type it. If you could only post it the moment you think the thought, you would stop losing these brilliant ideas

An ordered list of problems/issues involved

• possible discrimination against slow thinkers


• possible discrimination against visual thinkers (versus verbal thinkers). Solve it by adding a telepathic module for LJ's Scrapbook


• sometimes, certain ideas that were brilliant when you thought them up turn out not to be so when you post them. This isn't because you forgot the original phrasing or whatnot; it's because the idea wasn't actually brilliant in the first place. Certain LJ users may be forced to realize this and bruise their egos


• LJ would first have to prove the existence of telepathy


• LJ would have to develop in people the ability to post telepathically


• LJ would have to develop or buy the hardware required to catch telepathic posts. Such hardware would have to work at the speed of thought


• billions of people would realize that this is a brilliant idea, sign up for LJ, and try to post at once. Might kill the servers


• LJ would be blamed for an upsurge in stream-of-consciousness writing


• possibility of posts containing certain thoughts that users would, ah, rather not admit to


• dude, thoughtcrime

An organized list, or a few short paragraphs detailing suggestions for implementation

• I don't know, but the idea is absolutely fab, and I'm sure that everyone will love LJ forever if you would just give us this (oh, and more userpics)

(Originally posted as a comment here. Reposting it as an entry because I need to put it somewhere where I can edit the grammar. Also, grabbed the title and short description from chasethestars).

Comments

[afuna]

I think it's a bit more complicated than that. I mean how would a thought message be processed? When we post right now, we filter our thoughts into readable form by typing them in as words using a keyboard, but let's say that we somehow manage to get advanced enough technology to wire our brains to a chip (not saying that everyone will want to do it, but let's assume first that it's possible and that people are willing to use it), how do we output the thoughts into a form that others will be able to understand?

I seem to remember seeing something where people managed to manipulate errr robots? Prosthetic limbs? to do simple tasks, but I don't know if it would be possible to do that on a more abstract level using the same method. I wish now I'd paid more attention to that *g*

[homeworldfan829.livejournal.com]

well probably, the best way is to say it to a microphone, press some stuff, use any wireless medium to move that voice recording, have it recorded, and posting would not be readable, but be in voice - lj posts would no longer be on the web as we know it now but on the (i've made this up) the "stream"..

yung stream is a more complicated internet, but could lead to the human's "information overload" as you could tune in and out of it... I remember I watched a sci fi TV show Outer Limits on this before, and the guy got his brain cell fried and died due to a virus on the "stream"...

[homeworldfan829.livejournal.com]

This show was "

Stream Of Consciousness - Season 3
We quantify our world in order to learn... We break it down into facts, numbers, information... But how far dare we go before we destroy its mystery? We make tools to extend our abilities, to further our reach, and fulfill our aspirations. But we must never let them define us. For if there is no difference between tool and maker, then who will be left to build the world?"

from http://www.theouterlimits.com/noflash/downloads.html

[afuna]

But then it wouldn't be true telepathic posting, which was the point of the post.

LJ already has voice posts *g* There just needs to be a client on a handheld device (use a cellphone to call the number? Ahahha), though there's a limit on the number of voice posts per month, so it's not practical for everyday use. Also, voice posts are already stored as files, so no need to have a separate stream.

The voiceposting thingg just made me realize, though, that say there ever is developed straight mind-to-computer posting, the computer doesn't need to understand what it's receiving. I mean the computer already doesn't understand the data in the voicepost, right? It just needs to understand the commands to start and stop and also to add metadata, maybe... :D