Japanese Develop Device to Record Dreams and Read Minds

[CuttingEdge100]

FordSVT,

I also wouldn't automatically assume that a technology that allows the reception of signals from the brain to be transfered into usable data could be made wireless and noninvasive.

Then why did you say in post #16 that they probably will figure out a way?


Helen

 

[PurpleBuddha]

Japan's Dream Machine
URL: http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=101445

(Most of this is a video on the site, but there is a small quote)

A Japanese science lab is developing technologies to visualise images and dreams - and eventually read people's minds.

It's amazing how people who develop this always talk about only the benefits of it, like how it will help people remember cool dreams, and help those who can't communicate speak or render keyboards and stuff obsolete. What about the fact that it would totally gut the most basic form of privacy that exists?

I'm not saying I don't care about people who can't communicate -- I do care, and I do feel very sorry for them, but what about the rest of us? If you can't keep what you think within the confines of your own skull, then what privacy do you got?


CuttingEdge100

Don't use the machine and you don't have to worry about your privacy being violated in this manner.

Why would you assume that in all cases one would have a choice?

 

[CuttingEdge100]

PurpleBuddha,

Very good point

 

[msbae]

Japan's Dream Machine
URL: http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=101445

(Most of this is a video on the site, but there is a small quote)
It's amazing how people who develop this always talk about only the benefits of it, like how it will help people remember cool dreams, and help those who can't communicate speak or render keyboards and stuff obsolete. What about the fact that it would totally gut the most basic form of privacy that exists?

I'm not saying I don't care about people who can't communicate -- I do care, and I do feel very sorry for them, but what about the rest of us? If you can't keep what you think within the confines of your own skull, then what privacy do you got?


CuttingEdge100

Don't use the machine and you don't have to worry about your privacy being violated in this manner.

Why would you assume that in all cases one would have a choice?

Be cause there's no evidence that it's use would be mandatory.

 

[CuttingEdge100]

msbae,

It could easily become compulsory. I mean a lie-detector can be refused and isn't allowed in court because it is not 100% accurate and can be easily manipulated by the individual being interrogated. This device could not be manipulated by the individual being interrogated, and could potentially be 100% accurate.

It could eventually be viewed as the "new DNA" and could be ordered by a judge or by warrant.

To make it worse, if those in power fudged the results of such an examination, it would be believed without question and it could have very disastrous results.

Then there's always the risk that the ability to do it remotely will come around and then it could easily be done surreptitiously, without the public's awareness, and thus a government could easily employ it secretly without warrant.

If you think the NSA wiretapping trillions of e-mail, internet transmissions, and phone-calls was bad (and it was, it was totally intrusive, and completely illegal), this would seem almost trivial by comparison as hard as that is to believe.


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