There's an interesting story over on Wired (a tech news site) about the development
of a technology that lets you 'type' just from the impulses going to your fingers,
without the need for your digits to actually do anything as strenuous as even wiggle
about, much less whack away at a keyboard:
https://www.wired.com/story/brain-machine-interface-isnt-sci-fi-anymore/
Infuriatingly, there's no video of them actually typing, just a load of arty portrait
photos of the techies behind it, who are about a million times less interesting than
seeing this thing in action. There's just a short clip at the bottom of the story
showing what purports to be someone using the gadget to play Pong. Plus nothing peer
reviewed or otherwise verified about this, so ultimately it may just be fluff. Still,
worth knowing about in case something does come of it.
And as I noted in a little essay I wrote for Language on the Move earlier this year,
these sorts of technologies could eventually have very big knock-on consequences for
the field of language rights:
http://www.languageonthemove.com/will-technology-make-language-rights-obsolete/
Dave
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