Friday, February 9, 2007

AS THE WINSTON SMITH IN ALL OF US REACHES FOR HIS TINFOIL HAT: Some science beat sensationalists say neuroscience imaging researchers are edging ever closer to practical mind-reading applications.
We shouldn't go overboard about the power of these techniques at the moment, but what you can be absolutely sure of is that these will continue to roll out and we will have more and more ability to probe people's intentions, minds, background thoughts, hopes and emotions.
More interesting, from a less paranoid perspective, is how long it will be before some related gadget makes the keyboard obsolete. And the mouse, and the steering wheel, and the remote control, and the telephone keypad, and the ...

Slashdot? Of course.

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