Last week's story on the Mind Game Controller looked into emerging technologies used to entertain the minds of humans. We've grown accustomed to digital gaming technology being in the forefront of computer engineering. The boundary between purely biological lifeforms and strictly artificial lifeforms has blurred with a recent announcement.
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The Wired article, linked above, could easily cause significant anxiety. This could be an area of the unknown worthy of fear. Human ingenuity at circumventing supposedly fool proof systems can be counted on to find new and interesting hacks for the mind reading technology. It brings up a whole new concept for the crime of identity theft.
Or you could think someone into a James T. Kirk level of agony.
or for those with a dystopian outlook on life we bring you, straight from the Dept of Defense, a video exibiting the ironically titled Active Denial System.
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If we have to worry about the Dream Police, then everyone is going to be in trouble! At least, if the Clothes Police team up with the Dream Police, maybe some of these clothing designers will get arrested before they inflict their horrible outfits on the misguided public.
Hey, by the way, did we lose you in class? Haven't heard from you this week in our group!
Do you think that we will ever productively combine biological and artificial lifeforms for the good of humanity, or the world, not just as an oddity?
Wasn't there a Tom Cruise movie about something similar to this? I couldn't imagine such technology as described in the article coming to be mainstream. As if walking around Times Square wasn't hectic and cluttered with advertisements already, we would have advertisements being pumped straight into our minds as well? No thanks...until I end up working in advertising or promotions and it becomes my best friend, then I'm all for it! I found this article on the subject that seems to be more on the "pro" side of the issue
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-05-19-hss_x.htm
The Cruise movie was "Minority Report. Every where a body went, their eyes were scanned. What, nobody wears scan-blocking contacts or sunglasses?
I also wondered where he got the other eyes. Not from an dead organ donor, because Big Brother would know that one was dead, unless he was a John Doe.
I love science fiction, been reading it since I found my dad's stash of hard-core sci-fi (Analog) magazines he kept all the way back from the 50's. I think I was about 7 or 8 at the time. Ate them up like candy!
Some of the new technology is stranger than the science fiction. Sci-fi led the way, but I think that the cart (technology) has overtaken the horse (sci-fi).
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