I pray if we do it's opt-in, and not driven by advertising...
Electromyography on the larynx > silent speech recognition > transmission of the data through wireless network > speech synthesis > ouput audio to wireless earphone.
If you implant both ends you have something indistinguishable from (consensual) telepathy.
My father (and no doubt me at some point) has hearing aids that have bluetooth in them. He can answer the phone and talk on it without an additional earpiece. Cochlear implants can be augmented to use it[1]. So at some point understanding how to inject sound into your head will become so well understood it will simply be a matter of how much you're willing to spend.
[1] http://www.medel.com/us/bluetooth-wireless-connectivity-and-...
Telepathy seems like a nightmare or curse. Esp if it comes quickly. As in without millions of years of evolution to adapt socially to it.
Like, for example, the experience of having watched the birth of the Internet, and seen it actually channel itself into 4chan, parish, et al., was .. yeah .. kinda enlightening.
If we Get Telepathic, its going to be useful to have gotten over such things. Just a hunch.
-- It's invisible, travels via 'waves'
-- The 'waves' I use to speak can cause your brain to show you images
-- It can convey emotions, thoughts, images.
-- It can be used to persuade others, change the way they think about a subject.
-- **tree**. Did it work? Did you see a tree?
Of course recognising that speech really does check all the boxes is kind of a let down when you're expecting sci fi voices-in-your-head (wait, that sounds familiar...) telepathyI think IMs on smartphones are closest we are to sci-fi long-range telepathic connection from practical standpoint though.
Sounds pretty sci-fi, until you read about recent brain to brain communication experiments.
Even if you transfer all the input-requirements, the other person's procedural generator will give a different set of outputs to satisfy them.
People who "think in language" tend to be more common, but there are "people who think in language" and people who just don't. And people in either camp tend to assume that that's just how everyone is, until they are shown different. But since the "think in language" camp is larger, it is a lot easier to go through life not ever realizing that there are people who are different, to the point that many people even refuse to belief that non-linguistic thinkers exist even when presented with examples, which leads to a great deal of misinformation being spread in discussions of psycholinguistics.
I'm maybe not the only one who's experienced bits of 'beaming' with a long time friend or partner?
Perhaps "I have a pretty good idea of what X is thinking" is softer language than "I'm reading X's mind", but I can see how the experience of telepathy is not greatly distant from something that's normal for many people.
After a few weeks of playing with the same partner, you can pretty much know what they have in their hand just by the way they play.