Dr. Farwell’s research has led him into the field of forensic technology. According to Time, “While developing technology that would allow the vocally paralyzed to speak, he stumbled across a trove of seemingly extraneous signals stored in the brain. He began looking for a way to put that information to use. Result: a new forensic technology he calls brain fingerprinting.” This technology not only helps to identify human individuals, but also can detect when one is being truthful or not. It can also lead to understanding the criminal mind, and eliminating crime before it’s actually even thought of.
If this technology is already being put to work, then what may seem like the far-away future may not be as far away as we think, and the idea that controlling our search for a website with just a thought will put a whole new spin on the Internet in general, so it is hard to predict exactly what search will be like at that time. There will probably not even be websites at that time, but rather a whole new virtual world for us to explore, like ecommerce "storefronts" producing a lifelike shopping experience.
What kind of impact will this type of search have on the SEO industry? While there are certainly no predictions that will probably even come close to what the truth will be once we reach that point, one thing is clear: the Internet will never be the same again, and the SEO industry, if it is at all still alive at that time, will also never be the same. SEOs might find themselves subscribing to the types of technology that require them to implant jacks into their own brains, just to keep a step ahead of the game. It could just be that search engines will fall by the wayside in a historical era that might just be classified as torturous to modern civilization. I mean, why even search when you can just think? That will be something, indeed.
