Possibility that Facebook is developing telepathic technology enabling communication with brain waves

ByMauro Sartori

A hardware development group formed to promote Facebook's "connecting the world" plan is "Building 8"is. It is almost unexplored which kind of product and technology R & D of Building 8 is promoting, but from the company's recruitment information, it seems that "Brain computer interfaceIt is clear that we are about to undertake development in the field of "

Brain-Computer Interface Engineer, Building 8 | Facebook Careers
https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXqeWEAT/

Neural Imaging Engineer, Building 8 | Facebook Careers
https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXr3eEAD/

Haptics Engineer, Building 8 | Facebook Careers
https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXqdoEAD/

Facebook's Building 8 working on telepathic 'communication platform of the future' - Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-building-8-working-on-brain-computer-communication-platform-2017-1

Building 8 is a hardware research and development group announced that it was founded by Facebook in April 2016. Building 8 led the reason,DARPA(Former Director of the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Google's research and development groupATAPRegina Dugan who was in charge of.

Dugan heading Building 8.


Building 8 has not released products until its establishment from its establishment to January 2017, and its research content is hardly talked about, but the group has a brain computer interface, neural images,HapticsWe are looking for engineers in the field of. The brain computer interface is a technology or device that enables communication between the brain and computer by reading brain activities such as brain waves and brain signals and stimulating the brain. Neuroimaging is a technique to measure brain activity as an image, and haptics is a technology to realize tactile feedback.

In addition to that, we are recruiting engineers of algorithms related to the process of voice signals, and in the explanation, "Future communication, development of computing platform" is stated. Also, Mark Zuckerburg CEO says, "In the future it is possible to send and receive what you are thinking about each other directly"RemarkIt seems that Facebook is starting to develop technologies and devices that enable communication with EEG and brain signals.

In a public Q & A that Zuckerberg conducted in July 2015, a topic of the future that realizes the brain computer interface came out.

The brain computer interface is a technology that has a possibility to realize telepathy that we have only seen in movies, and expectations for Facebook's future research will be whether whether it really will be possible or not.