Okay, so telepathy is 8-bit for now. Give it 20 years and itâll be HD.

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Because the visual cortex registers what you see, whether you realize it or not, this process also makes it possible to capture things you havenât physically seen - like dreams or visualized imaginary scenarios â as well as things you canât consciously recall seeing, or werenât paying attention to - like forgotten memories or small details overlooked at the time. So eventually,way down the line, this process could be used for anything visually based, from finding your lost keys, to recording your dreams for later examination. Why you would want to do the latter is anybodyâs guess, seeing as how your dreams, if theyâre anything like mine, are mostly just jumbled assortments of pop-culture idols gyrating erotically, while abstract representations of your deepest fears chase you through a hedge-maze, finally catching you because you can only run in slow motion while everything else moves in real time.

Like this, but with MacGyver's face. And sexy.

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For the time being, they can only recreate crude images like the aforementioned letters, and even then only by painstakingly mapping brain activity recorded while youâre currently looking at something. So on the down side, even if it advanced remarkably, this specific technology could never tell somebody what you werethinking; it could only improve at telling them what you were picturing. But on the plus side, all those violent revenge fantasies you have - where people guilty of the slightest offense towards you are beaten to a pulp by your unerring fists, while all of your female friends and co-workers celebrate your impending victory by stripping off their business attire and engaging in exceptionally bouncy oil fights? Yeah, soon theyâll be able to totally watch that shit. Even record it! Where it will probably get you incredibly, irrevocably firedâ¦ or else promoted to the advertising department (depending on the marketability of the jiggles.)