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So cool!

I can't wait until the phone can detect EEG frequencies to guess what I might be thinking so that it can then bombard me with ads about shit I didn't even know I wanted!

Bonus points for messaging all my friends on Facebook to let them know I just was thinking about kinky porn!

It sure would take all the work out of making decisions (like what I may or may not like) or having to deal with all the pesky extra money and friends I have now!




Surely OP didn't mean to celebrate being tracked by advertisers. Emotional reactions are understandable, but if you take a step back, the technology could be used in a very different way. The problem is not that it uses sounds which are difficult to hear. The problem is that it does this without user's consent.


Thank you, and yes I should clarify that I'm against that kind of espionage use. It's the technology itself that seems promising for other purposes.




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