From the “ how the perdition did we escape this ” department hail word that the U.S. military is hard at study creating“thought helmets”for its soldiers . If fully realized , this mind - interfacing piece of gear would allow for what plebeians would call magic , and Arthur C. Clark would call basic telepathy . The “ good ” news show is the Army believes telepathic communicating between soldier in the athletic field is entirely possible , some sidereal day . The bad news is that “ some day ” is decades away for this fabulously ambitious plan — this ai n’t no video recording game controller , folk . ”Having a soldier derive the ability to pass along without any overt movement would be invaluable both in the battlefield as well as in combat fatal accident tending , ” the Army said in last year ’s contract solicitation , which was award last calendar month to a coalition of scientists and over-the-top gentlemen from the University of California at Irvine , Carnegie Mellon University , and the University of Maryland . “ It would provide a radical applied science for silent communication and predilection that is inherently resistant to extraneous environmental auditory sensation and light . ” The system , in possibility , would work thusly . First , it would “ decode the activeness in brain networks ” so soldiers could radio commands to their police squad simply by opine of the message . In the arrangement ’s former stages ( and , again , we ’re talking theoretical here ) , the person on the other remainder of that thought transmission would hear a robotic interpreter speaking the command into their headphone . But that ’s kind of naive , do n’t you think ?
But scientists finally go for to deliver a version in which commands are rendered in the speaker ’s voice and indicate the verbaliser ’s distance and direction from the listener .
Yeah . We humanity . Pretty awful at time . At times . [ TIME , Image : Wired ]
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