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60 Minutes: Incredible Research Lets Scientists Get A Glimpse At Your Thoughts
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- Santa really can know if you have been naughty or nice.
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- Santa really can know if you have been naughty or nice.
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- Get the new Ronco thought analyzer! Always know what your wife is thinking! Stay on the good side of your boss! Thrill and amaze your friends!
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- Why can''''t scientists look into more meaningful questions, like what came first, the chicken or the egg?
SIG HEIL, I ALWAYS WANTED PEOPLE TO THINK LIKE I DO!!!, BUSH!!!
Posted by walt1944 at 01:33 PM : Jan 05, 2009
So...what''s your suggestion, halt research? That will simply never work...you need to learn to live with humanities pension for innovation. That doesn''t mean it won''t one day invade your privacy or blow you up, but there''s no stemming the tide of thought. These things will happen...better we figure it out first. - Reply to this comment
- But I guess you''''d be OK with political re-education camps for those who vote in a politically incorrect manner.
Posted by oldone61 at 11:23 AM : Jan 05, 2009
I guess I would...if that manner were in fact politically INCORRECT.
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- Don''t put the cart before the horse people! 15 years ago they said we would have hydrogen cars in 5 years. Then after 5 years they said another 5 years. Still it''s 5 years out.
Humans think so much faster than a computer could put together the though process that by the time it''s detected "I have a bomb", the passenger will already be on the plane.
If they build these "mind reading" computers with Windows, it''ll never work properly. - Reply to this comment
- I found the segment on 60 Minutes regarding the possibility that scientists are close to being able to read your mind and that technology 5 years from now would make it possible for them to point a laser at you and do the same thing without even your knowledge of it HIGHLY DISTURBING!
I kept getting unsettling visions of "1984" when the "Thought Police" probed your mind to find out what your weaknesses were, and then used it against you!
If scientists can find out what you are thinking now or 5 years from now, ultimately someone will discover how to take control of a person''s mind and turn the person into a lifeless robot!
One can imagine how such technology could be used in the hands of an Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, or even a Great Emperor George Bush II and VP Darth Vader Cheney!!!
Why can''t scientists look into more meaningful questions, like what came first, the chicken or the egg?
SIG HEIL, I ALWAYS WANTED PEOPLE TO THINK LIKE I DO!!!, BUSH!!! - Reply to this comment
- Go rent the movie "Eagle Eye"
You''ll never look at your cell phone the same way again. - Reply to this comment
- "1984 meets the "Twilight Zone".
Queue the muzak, please...!
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- If you look at the many ways that government, business, and others continually try to pry into your life, it''s no stretch to see where this technology will go. Our fundamental rights will be at risk, starting with privacy. I predict that it will play out the same way it always does: The common man will be allowed to wear his tin foil hat or whatever method will protect him from the next common man''s prying, but the elite class will be technologically and legally entitled. It''s like wire tapping, weapons possession, torture, etc.
This is the beginning of the thought police. If you don''t think so, just wait for the first case of sexual harassment in the workplace by THINKING ABOUT IT! Then will come the profiling, the same way online-marketers build "cyber-personas" of us by examining a few clues into how we think. People who think outside the norm will be eyed with suspicion. - Reply to this comment
- Ah yes, the real LIEberal dream - re-education camps for their political opponents.
Posted by oldone61 at 08:48 AM
You mean like Gitmo?
Posted by earache4 at 08:56 AM : Jan 05, 2009
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Last time I checked, the people in GITMO did more than vote - they were engaged in an effort to kill us. But I guess you''d be OK with political re-education camps for those who vote in a politically incorrect manner. - Reply to this comment
- Next thing you know we''ll be able to not only read our thoughts but to physically manifest them like the Krell in the movie "Forbidden Planet". Then we''ll end up killing each other via our subconcious mind.
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- The day an MRI can tell me if I am thinking about the treaty of Versailles or the treaty of Guadaulupe-Hidalgo then I''ll accept this so called science.
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- How Technology May Soon "Read" Your Mind? Yeah, let them start with all the crooked politicians and so called ''leaders''!
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- Put together genetic engineering, neuroscience and advances in computer chips and you will see the end of **** sapiens. Humans will be out of date and unable to compete. We will go the way of the Neanderthals.
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- The supreme court allowing people to
be subjected to this devious thought-
detecting brain scan will have to wait
till Roberts and Scalia are gone. - Reply to this comment
- "...but we know who belongs in prison, GW bush and anyone that voted for him..."
Posted by pythoncharly at 01:20 AM : Jan 05, 2009
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Ah yes, the real LIEberal dream - re-education camps for their political opponents. - Reply to this comment
- um, why do we need this? same question should have been asked about the atom bomb. what in the world is wrong with these unnecessarily curious fools?
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Posted by comeon11 at 07:15 AM : Jan 05, 2009
You must not have seen this on 60 minutes. It''s actually pretty cool (as long as it is used for it''s intended purpose--usually the downfall of most of the good things we have). Lets say for instance, you have a prosthetic arm or leg; a device such as this could allow your brain to communicate with the limb. It is truly a marvel of science. - Reply to this comment
- Great, and we all get along so well without knowing each others thoughts.
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- Please lets do Bush first to see if there is anything going on at all.
Posted by zzy-izzy at 06:41 AM
Sorry, cannot happen. There actually has to be a brain to scan. - Reply to this comment
