I was reading an article in Inc. magazine about a company who is producing a product which reads the emotion from sensors placed on your head under your hair and uses those signals to issue commands to perform remote activities such as moving a block across a room.
The product uses a piece of headgear with 16 electrodes pressed on your scalp and monitors the electric signals produced by your brain during its thinking and emotion processes. Furthermore, pounds of gel like materials are required to ensure a good electrical connection is maintained between your skin and the sensors.
It could be possible in the future to convert these signals to perform such activities as surgery or cooking with the use of sophisticated software to translate the signals to commands with the intention of being executing them remotely.
I was even more surprised to read other companies were attempting to produce products utilizing the same technology. It is likely one of these companies will begin to sell a product offering this technology sometime within the next year.
The article made me think, for instance, if these signals were read and interpreted what would stop the signals are stored and used to track a person’s thoughts in real time of transmit them to storage medium for analysis later? The recent advances in wireless technology make this a real possibility.
Who says at some point in the future your brain’s processes would not be used to evaluate your character by measuring your thoughts and not our actions? Would you want your every thought being intercept and recorded?
A long time has passed since George Orwell’s 1984; will technology make the concept of “Big Brother” move from a novel to becoming a reality?
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