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Learn bit literacy before your brain plugs in...
Today, people who don't learn bit literacy suffer from overload and confusion, since they don't know how to manage their information using today's badly designed tools.
But that's comparatively mild. People who don't know these skills in coming years may find themselves at the whim of much different interfaces.
Case in point, today brings news of brain-computer interfaces, which I reference in Bit Literacy (see footnote on page 147). From Wired, Brain to Control Games Directly, Maybe Vice Versa:
Several makers of brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs -- devices that facilitate operating a computer by thought alone -- claim the technology is poised to jump from the medical sector into the consumer gaming world in 2008.
...but many scientists worry that users brains' might be subject to negative effects. For example, the devices sometimes force users to slow down their brain waves. Afterward, users have reported trouble focusing their attention.
Learn the skills now: read Bit Literacy and put it into practice.
