[IP] more on re: Thoughts read' via brain scans

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date: August 7, 2005 11:51:18 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Thoughts read' via brain scans
Reply-To: dewayne@warpspeed.com


[Note:  This comment comes from reader Ted Kircher.  DLH]


> From: "Ted Kircher" <tkircher@comcast.net>
> Date: August 7, 2005 2:45:09 AM PDT
> To: <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] Thoughts read' via brain scans
>
>
> Dewayne,
>
> I wonder when, not if, this will evolve into a 'truth detector' so  
> that any person
> who might be considered to be a criminal, terrorist or ... "anyone  
> against his/her
> government's policies" is safe from their own brain waves
> ( see <http://fairfield.freehosting.net/98nov/brainwaves.html>  
> posted in 1998).
>
> This technology coupled with RFID chips that will be embedded in  
> almost every
> product purchased - and perhaps even considered when walking  
> through a store,
> library, .... will allow government to 'paint anyone's pot black'  
> as soon as they
> oppose policies by 'giving them an offer they cannot refuse'; i.e.  
> in the form of
> "you're eitiher with me or against me".
>
> A scary aspect of the future of freedom, democracy, .... ; the  
> basic principles of
> our Constitution!
>
> Ted

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