To summarize: Having a sense for something that is invisible to everyone else can mean that many well-designed things are very poorly designed for you.
Which actually sounds like your basic early adopter problem. Hypothetically, as more and more people gain this sense, there will be market pressure to make the world more interesting and usable for them, and the growing competitive advantage for those who have it will accelerate the process. This won't be the last novel sense humanity sees... It will be interesting to see this play out, if not with magnetism than with UV or radar or whatever it is.
This is a great summary: "Having a sense for something that is invisible to everyone else can mean that many well-designed things are very poorly designed for you."
I'd rather have manually induced signals than a magnet, ideally something that could use low power bluetooth (or similar) to talk to my smartphone. Maybe a set of muscle-twitching electrodes to replace vibrate mode on my phone, or to poke me for anything else that I'd want to be notified of.
With enough outputs you even do things similar to the vibrating compass belt that's mentioned elsewhere in the comments. Or instead of a north-compass, it could point you toward any arbitrary destination via GPS.
It is interesting that this wouldn't be assumed considering the reverse is so obviously true. The world is designed for people with the median amount of human senses. If you lose one completely or have a sense that isn't as perceptive as most other people, there are a variety of challenges that you will have to overcome. However, you do get to avoid some of the everyday annoyances that the rest of us have to deal with.
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To summarize: Having a sense for something that is invisible to everyone else can mean that many well-designed things are very poorly designed for you.
Which actually sounds like your basic early adopter problem. Hypothetically, as more and more people gain this sense, there will be market pressure to make the world more interesting and usable for them, and the growing competitive advantage for those who have it will accelerate the process. This won't be the last novel sense humanity sees... It will be interesting to see this play out, if not with magnetism than with UV or radar or whatever it is.
This is a great summary: "Having a sense for something that is invisible to everyone else can mean that many well-designed things are very poorly designed for you."
Thanks!
I'd rather have manually induced signals than a magnet, ideally something that could use low power bluetooth (or similar) to talk to my smartphone. Maybe a set of muscle-twitching electrodes to replace vibrate mode on my phone, or to poke me for anything else that I'd want to be notified of.
With enough outputs you even do things similar to the vibrating compass belt that's mentioned elsewhere in the comments. Or instead of a north-compass, it could point you toward any arbitrary destination via GPS.
Or just gloves instead of implants. So you can take them off, but still get the benefit when they're on.
I don't see why it isn't possible.
Definitely more what I had in mind
It is interesting that this wouldn't be assumed considering the reverse is so obviously true. The world is designed for people with the median amount of human senses. If you lose one completely or have a sense that isn't as perceptive as most other people, there are a variety of challenges that you will have to overcome. However, you do get to avoid some of the everyday annoyances that the rest of us have to deal with.