Now what did I mean by that?
One of the advantages of jotting thoughts down on a slip of paper (instead of proclaiming them to the world as soon as they enter our minds) is that we can check whether we were making any sense. Thoughts that seem to us profound when they first pop into our minds have, after all, a tendency to be surprisingly banal and far from earth-shattering when we revisit them even a short time later.
Perhaps it's here that a slower typing speed may actually be of some advantage. If we can't type at the speed of our thoughts we have to think through what it is that we want to say. We have to choose our words, refine our thoughts. And hopefully the end product is something that's worth being put into words, and is expressed in a befiting manner.
Ultimately, that means that more than an electrode that converts what I think into word-processed text, what I really want is an electrode that edits those thoughts into well-expressed text. Such an electrode belongs, of course, more to the realm of science fiction than to functional technology. I will admit, however, that the process of converting thoughts into thought out sentences via typing onto a keyboard is in and of itself a thinking tool. In other words, here as well, access to a keyboard has become an integral part of my being. Not having a keyboard available makes it difficult for me to develop my thoughts.
Go to: From the brain to the page ... fast, or
Go to: Really a part of me.