Today's Must-Read: Would You Let This Man Into Your Brain?

The future isn't here yet -- quite -- but Facebook is working on it:

There was this promising new technology, [Zuckerberg] explained, a brain-computer interface, which Facebook has been researching.

The idea is to allow people to use their thoughts to navigate intuitively through augmented reality—the neuro-driven version of the world recently described by Kevin Kelly in these pages. No typing—no speaking, even—to distract you or slow you down as you interact with digital additions to the landscape: driving instructions superimposed over the freeway, short biographies floating next to attendees of a conference, 3D models of furniture you can move around your apartment.

There's a lot of potential in this -- the possibilities for, for example, stroke victims or paraplegics are exciting -- but given Facebook's history with privacy issues, and the common practice among the tech companies of selling users' personal information -- not to mention say, Fifth Amendment issues, which the article mentions -- I would say that, as a species, we're not mature enough for this.