Saturday, August 03, 2013

[vgvaaqrd] Neural interface for writing

Occasionally I have had several paragraphs of text worked out in my head but failed to write it down before it evaporated (like the backstory of Coleridge's Kubla Khan).  It does inspire that there is much room for improvement for text input devices, perhaps a mind-reading interface someday, or, even more ambitiously, the reverse, the capability to deliver text directly into someone's mind without the relatively slow effort of reading it.

Or, am I simply not using existing tools efficiently?  Even recorded dictation is faster than typing at immediately getting stuff out of my head and onto a physical medium, which can be transcribed later.

But for some reason, it seems difficult to speak text in my head.  Perhaps it is only a mental illusion that it is complete, still mostly abstract ideas that haven't been turned into language yet.

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