Capturing Intentions: The Ultimate UI

The best User Interface is one that does not exist.

Imagine not having to tell a software application what to do.

Imagine not having to tell your hand to move a mouse to click a button that tells the software application what to do.

Imagine the software captures your intentions. Directly.

When computers are able to couple directly with our brains, capturing the intentions, we will enter the new era. Screenless, touchless, direct, men and machines, together.

We are entering this era now: a new device was implanted in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), a part of the brain that controls the intent to move, not the movement directly.

The latency introduced by our muscles, finger movements, touch clicks and misses and the 150-years old QWERTY UI (specifically designed to throttle the speed of data entry) is several orders of magnitude higher than the latency of the global communication network. Imagine being able to exchange 10x, 100x or 1000x more information with other people and machines. The Internet morphing into a BrainNet. With billions of eyes, ears, thoughts, all interconnected.