This headline is a little… “generous.”

Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts

In short:

It works through a combination of electroencephalograms (EEGs), for recording the electrical impulses that indicate brain activity, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), where neurons are stimulated using magnetic fields.

All well and good. What the researchers were actually able to transmit from brain to brain was a flashing light: one person saw an LED flash at a particular rate, and another “saw” the flashing light in their mind. Which is interesting, of course, but it’s hardly the same as transmitting thought. If what the first brain transmitted wasn’t the brains response to actually seeing a real light, but instead the first brain was told to *think* of a flashing light (or a symbol, a concept, a color), and the second brain picked up on that… THAT would be thought transmission of a limited kind.

But give it a few years work. I’m sure that soon enough this will lead to a new form of social media where people will be able to get offended at unheard-of speeds.