Spent all last year writing a techno-thriller about mind-reading, I'm sure this is about as factual, and, of course nothing nefarious could possibly happen if this ever became real.

This is the stuff nightmares are made of. We already live in a you have nothing to hide society. Now imagine one where mega corps and the government have access to every thought you have. No worries, you got nothing to hide right? What would that do to our thought process and how we articulate our inner selfs? What do we allow ourselves to even think? At some point it will not even matter because we will have trained ourselves to suppress any deviant thought. I'd rather not keep on going because the ramifications of this technology make me truly sick in the stomach.

You probably thought about some nefarious stuff that could happen. Mind to share some interesting ones?

In the Ghost in the Shell universe, I always thought the telepathic conversations from cyberbrain to cyberbrain was one of the most fantastic and least realistic predictions for the future. But I was clearly wrong. We already have rudimentary telepathy 10 years ahead of schedule!