If you'd relegated the Thought Police from that Cliff Notes version of 1984 you read in high school to science fiction, think again, friend: scientists in Germany have just made the first major progress in being able to predict a person's intentions before they act them out. As you might expect, the team from Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience are using modern technology's best tool for observing brain activity -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- to determine subjects' likely course of action when presented with a set of numbers that they may either add or subract.
Now, the post goes on to assuage our fears by saying that this tech is in it's very babyhood and is far from being in practical use. The thing is, why would anyone want to develop this kind of tech in the first place? Is reading someone's mind with such detail something we really want to be able to do with a computer? I question the morals and the motivation of any "scientist" who thinks this kind of tech is a good idea and isn't like to be less used and more abused.
Orignal From: Another Mind Reading Computer
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