They haven’t quite pulled it off yet, but at least two corporate/academic entities are lately pushing research and tech efforts to pierce the last boundary of privacy, your inner monologue. This isn’t mind control or t elepathy (yet), but it’s a big step on the road thereto and contributes to th at larger project of remaking the human as cyborg .

MIT-associated startup AlterEgo just dropped a wearable device that detects subvocalizations, maps them to language, and translates to a robot voice that can be shared with others using their own device. Sort of a silent walkie-talkie. The X.com sales pitch for the product, Silent Sense, depicts two co-workers engaged in small talk. AlterEgo acknowledges, however, that the other intended percipient in the translation

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