Trend Neurotechnology and affect sensing move from clinic to consumer device

Summary

This trend describes neurotechnology that monitors the brain and nervous system moving from specialised settings into everyday devices. Sitra observes that accelerating technological change is ever more visible in the services and gadgets people use at work and at leisure. Its imagined 2046 magazine features an article on a future where such neurotechnology has become commonplace. The piece interviews people who use or relate to it in different ways and adds expert analysis of a time when regulation in the field is tightening. It draws on signals ranging from implanted brain-computer interface trials to brainwave-sensing earbuds, headphones and emotion-reading glasses. Others concern privacy and social change more broadly, such as the protection of neurorights.