17 March 2007

The Frankenfuture

It's only a matter of time.
But if machines can read your mind when you want them to, they can also read it when you don't. And your will isn't necessarily the one they obey.

Already, scans have been used to identify brain signatures of disgust, drug cravings, unconscious racism, and suppressed sexual arousal, not to mention psychopathy and propensity to kill.

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