My Job Makes Me Impatient

Filed under: Writing Thoughts — joy at 4:05 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Sometimes writing feels tedious. It takes a lot of patience to slow my brain down and translate my thoughts word by word onto the page. In the future, I could see myself getting suckered into one of those devises that connect to your brain so that all you would have to do is think for the words to appear on the page. It would be less frustrating and it would increase my productivity by a lot. Yet at the same time, I’m concerned about these attempts to develop technology that can read people’s minds. It just can’t be a good thing. I mean, who does that benefit, really, other than quadriplegics and evil geniuses and lazy writers? No, no, it’s better we don’t have devices that read our thoughts. I should just try to type faster.

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Comment by Eric

February 1, 2008 @ 10:09 am

Seems to me that a brain-reading device like that would be great for notes, but terrible for writing. The fact that writing forces both pace and linearization on thoughts seems very important for writing anything meant to be understood by other people.

Comment by Joy

February 1, 2008 @ 10:11 am

Ah Eric… That’s what editing is for!

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