I don't think there is one, not for a version of humanity that is even remotely recognizable at least. We are not ready to hear each other's internal monologues.
Most people have intrusive thoughts, some people (like those with OCD, for example) have really frequent and distressing intrusive thoughts. What are you going to think of the OCD sufferer in the cubicle next to you who keeps inadvertently broadcasting intrusive thoughts about violently stabbing you to death? Keep in mind, they will never act on those thoughts, they are simply the result of some faulty brain wiring and they are even more disgusted about them than you are. What are you going to think when you find out your sister-in-law had an affair with a coworker ten years ago, because her mind wandered there while you were having coffee with her?
Humanity does not even come close to having the level of understanding and compassion needed to prevent total chaos in a world like that. People naïvely believed that edgy or embarrassing social media posts made by millenials in the late 2000s wouldn't be a big deal, because we'd all figure out that everyone is imperfect and the person you were 10 years ago is not the person you are today. Nope, if anything the opposite has happened: it's now a widely accepted practice to go on a fishing expedition through someone's social media history to find something compromising to shame them with. Now imagine that, but applied to mind reading. No, that's not a future that we can survive as a species, at least not without radical changes in our approaches to dealing with each other.
Most people have intrusive thoughts, some people (like those with OCD, for example) have really frequent and distressing intrusive thoughts. What are you going to think of the OCD sufferer in the cubicle next to you who keeps inadvertently broadcasting intrusive thoughts about violently stabbing you to death? Keep in mind, they will never act on those thoughts, they are simply the result of some faulty brain wiring and they are even more disgusted about them than you are. What are you going to think when you find out your sister-in-law had an affair with a coworker ten years ago, because her mind wandered there while you were having coffee with her?
Humanity does not even come close to having the level of understanding and compassion needed to prevent total chaos in a world like that. People naïvely believed that edgy or embarrassing social media posts made by millenials in the late 2000s wouldn't be a big deal, because we'd all figure out that everyone is imperfect and the person you were 10 years ago is not the person you are today. Nope, if anything the opposite has happened: it's now a widely accepted practice to go on a fishing expedition through someone's social media history to find something compromising to shame them with. Now imagine that, but applied to mind reading. No, that's not a future that we can survive as a species, at least not without radical changes in our approaches to dealing with each other.