I thought of this question and - voila there it is - without typing it - what's next in telekinesis?

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I would like an AI app to decide creatively what I like so I don’t need to think or exist. The AI would think and decide for me so I don’t need telekinesis.

Remote control children. We don’t need to spank or yell, just guide them with our gentle suggestion and they do what we need them to do.

Someone will find a way to charge for it.

Someone else will patent it and prevent others from using it.

Just think of the philosophical and ethical questions that are opened up. Where do I end and the machine begins? If I off-load a decision to a microprocessor, who is at fault if I (we?, they?) mess up?

I think the first mind-controlled applications will be in two areas: assistance for the disabled and hands-free control of munitions (esp aircraft fire control).

I don’t think we should get terms mixed up. Telekenesis is moving something external to your body with your thoughts alone. What you are refering to is a machine that that is hype sensitive to physical changes in your body and can control something with them.

Research into this has been going on for a long time, for instance the Heads Up control used by military pilots. I suspect the research will continue and only get better.

Cutting Milo’s nails.

Getting mops to walk and clean by themselves (warning: this product is known to malfunction and just keep cleaning on and on as well as flooding entire structures. Product may ignore orders to stop and possibly may turn against you. If this happens, call 1–800-WIZARD1, to get proper assistance from a high level sorceror who may or may not berate you and/or swat you)

That is pretty awesome, so long as it can read one’s imaginings accurately. I can see how it would be easy to crash it.

I wouldn’t mind having a car I can think at. Radios remote control. TV. Typing. Making the computer do what I want. The microwave. Any electronic tool—would be handy to have a thinking interface with it, so I no longer have to turn things on and off or set instructions manually.

Of course, what happens if I’m driving my car, and a kid yells in the back seat and I suddenly turn to see what is happening? What does the car do in my sudden loss of focus? Does it steer off the road like it might do under the current driving system?

Next I think they’ll have to get more sophisticated with the interpretation of brain waves. Right now they can map a part of your brain that fires when a certain thought is thunk. However, they don’t have the template for specific thoughts like “orange, water, space” yet. The next real step forward is any application that tries to interpret these more intricate nuances. For example, if they come up with an app type game that shows a picture of the object your thinking about, to a friend on another device. Then that friend will think of the same and when both match the next round starts. Points could be based on the time it took. The next step after that would probably be to have the device trigger your brain receptors so that you see the object in your mind instead of on a device. But I don’t think we’ll see that last one for another 20 years or so.

Man, all that is too complicated for me. I just wish they would turn sidewalks in conveyors you just stand on, so you wouldn’t have to walk everywhere.

Naw. Then we’d never get any exercise and we already get too little as it is. It would probably cut our life expectency by 20 years if we never had to walk anywhere.

Your post doesn’t count if you tell me you own a car. :p

I own a car, a bike, and a set of feet, and I use them all!

I just got feet. And a bus pass. Lulz.

Want my tardis? Yeah. I got one of those, too. But I never use it. Except in my imagination.

So this is the General section, eh?! It looks a lot like Social. Not that I care. Enjoy.

I’d make my car move during my commutes without having fill it with gasoline.