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Thexting is a portmanteau of thought and text, and is the act of sending messages across a network directly from a user's thoughts.

The term "thexting" first appeared in fiction in Jim Infantino's novel "The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England."

In Rob Hoschild's summary of the book he summarizes by saying "Jim Infantino's latest creation is his first novel, a work of science fiction that takes us about 80-90 years into the future. In The Wakeful Wanderer’s Guide to New New England, half the people have technology implanted in their brains that allows for thexting—communication that unfolds without the need for speech—and the other half avoid the implant and its trappings."

MIT Media Lab has created a wearable product called AlterEgo that promises some of the functionality of thexting.

Usage
In literature, thexted text is enclosed in square brackets for example:

[“Morning, Marto!”] Piter sent.