This will be forced upon people in some circumstances…
Just put it in gay ppl and give them a shock everytime they have uncouth thoughts. We’d have so many more children to grow into mindless drones for the billionaires if everyone bred!
Quickly, he’s flatlining, better get the truth out before…
“You have the right to remain silent, because everything you think can be used against you in a trial…”
Thoughtcrime issues? You have thoughts about harming someone, you get punished for it even if you don’t take action?
I suppose the upshot is it could be used to detect and diagnose mental illnesses?
Furthermore, going into the future, it could ostensibly be used to control parts of the body that are damaged or otherwise not working, or emulate their function. For example, someone with damaged vocal cords could use it to speak through connected speakers. Someone who is paralysed could use it to walk with a mechanical exoskeleton.
The problem with something like that is, it would have to be privacy focused. Samsung, one of the most popular smartphone makers, updated their Health app a year or two ago to where you had to agree to allow them to sell or give away your medical information if you want to continue to use Samsung Health. And that’s a Korean company. Apple Health is still private, but Apple is an American company, so the question is begged, “but for how long?”.
So, the question is, are the powers that be/fascists in charge going to use it to weed out LGBTQ+ and put them in concentration camps, or what?
Minority Report becomes a documentary?
Sorry to be THAT guy, but… Well, Technically™, this idea has been analysed for, I dare say, centuries at this point.
Edit: and in many (not all, but very, very many) scenarios, it ends up being a profoundly shitty idea.
Not against actual medical use, but unless absolutely needed, it should be a “fuck no.” Imho.
Edit 2/unprompted musings: I think we, as a species, are simply too immature for such technologies. We’re still at the “age” where the first thing we’ll do with it would be to figure out how to best weaponise it.
Because there are ways in which this might actually help if we place some heavy-duty limits and restrictions on the tech itself - I’m thinking about how much it might facilitate comprehension in a scenario where one could transmit the unmolested concept directly, instead of butchering it through language first. But that’s still such a hhhhyooooj responsibility, that I simply don’t think we could handle as we are now collectively.
This makes me wonder if there is a silver lining to the fact that education is going down the shitter. Science is starting to destroy society. I would rather just be dumb and farm shit.
It’s not science that’s destroying society - its the misuse of science and worse, greed that has a veneer of science or rather, $cience.
It’s the usual story of capitalism, oligarchy and big corp ruining everything for everyone but themselves.
It has been such since the beginning of time. Technology makes it scarier.
Thing is, technology just… is, neither bad nor good. The principles behind every single technological breakthrough have always existed, we just figure out how they work.
Like a knife, science is a tool. The ones who misuse the tool (i.e. us) are to blame for the damage done, not the tool itself.
They won’t need polys for Top Secret clearance anymore. They’ll just force you to get one of these and BAM.
That only makes it easier for us to identify them.
I firmly believe, given enough time and technology, and barring we don’t destroy our own selves like dumb asses of the highest order that mankind is…I think we can achieve just about anything we can possibly think of. Which is a beautiful picture if we weren’t so short sighted.
I have a brain injury from impact. Tho I am not a paraplegic or in a wheelchair, I have suffered some mental/neural maladies. I am pretty mobile, I read a ton of content off the internet. So, I function with some defficiencies. Imagine for those far worse off than I, like a paraplegic with significant brain/spinal damage. I always think ‘I wonder if they have any kind of inner monologue?’
In a general sense, we loose very few of our memories over our lifetime. Yes there are caveats but, a majority still exist, our retrieval system lags. I realize it’s a lot more complicated than this simplistic explaination. If we could somehow tap into that lost archived data bank, that would open up a lot litany of issues. Solving crime comes to mind.
