Thought Distillery

In my perfect world, communication would be instant and effortless. Though we are approaching instant communication via some mediums, there is still quite a bit of effort to make it happen. In the case of Instant Messaging for example, look at all the complex infrastructure that has been developed over the last decade just to make this communication technology possible. Don’t even mention all the keystrokes that need to be entered thus baring a significant percent of the population whose hunt-n-peck skills bring the speed of thought to a measely crawl.

No, what the world of communication needs is telepathy. Yes, I refer to the far-fetched sci-fi notion of communicating via thought. Imagine instantaneous brain-to-brain transmission, completely effortless and completely painless. But then of course once we have mastered this skill look out for the inevitable telepathimarketers invading your very thought space trying to sell you the next great gee-whiz product. I think I would have to resort to completely shutting down my thoughts if it ever came to that. Perhaps some communication barriers are best kept just as they are.