Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions

Ha, check this out. Remember in Doom 3 where the cute little sentry robots can sense insane/posessed soldiers? Here's a very interesting article from Slashdot:

"Reality continues to catch up with Nineteen Eighty-Four with the announcement of the development of a brain scanner that can read a person's intentions. 'It's like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,' said the leader of the project, Professor John-Dylan Haynes . Demonstrating his own mastery of doublethink, Haynes continued 'We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.'"

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0. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2009217,00.html

 

I took a class called "Freedom, Privacy and Technology" a while back, and I remember how a common issue was that everything always becomes a double-edged sword. Standards are always changing because of it, aren't they?

 

ahhhh... engrish! anyone dare to click and find out what they're selling us...