| Army developing "synthetic telepathy" | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 13 2008, 06:22 PM (871 Views) | |
| Wintermute | Oct 13 2008, 06:22 PM Post #1 |
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Vocal cords were overrated anyway. A new Army grant aims to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. No need to type an e-mail, dial a phone or even speak a word. Known as synthetic telepathy, the technology is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG. Similar technology is being marketed as a way to control video games by thought. "I think that this will eventually become just another way of communicating," said Mike D'Zmura, from the University of California, Irvine and the lead scientist on the project. Story continues below ↓advertisement "It will take a lot of research, and a lot of time, but there are also a lot of commercial applications, not just military applications," he said. The idea of communicating by thought alone is not a new one. In the 1960s, a researcher strapped an EEG to his head and, with some training, could stop and start his brain's alpha waves to compose Morse code messages. The Army grant to researchers at University of California, Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland has two objectives. The first is to compose a message using, as D'Zmura puts it, "that little voice in your head." The second part is to send that message to a particular individual or object (like a radio), also just with the power of thought. Once the message reaches the recipient, it could be read as text or as a voice mail. While the money may come from the Army and its first use could be for covert operations, D'Zmura thinks that thought-based communication will find more use in the civilian realm. "The eventual application I see is for students sitting in the back of the lecture hall not paying attention because they are texting," said D'Zmura. "Instead, students could be back there, just thinking to each other." EEG-based gaming devices are large and fairly conspicuous, but D'Zmura thinks that eventually they could be incorporated into a baseball hat or a hood. You can read the rest over at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27162401/ |
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| albis | Oct 13 2008, 08:25 PM Post #2 |
Fucking gook
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thought police are gonna suck |
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| Sephs | Oct 13 2008, 11:53 PM Post #3 |
King Ratcock!
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License and registration CHICKEN FUCKER |
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| NakieoN | Oct 14 2008, 12:46 AM Post #4 |
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Did you get that thought from 1984? Seriously... I could see this happening. |
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| Dervin | Oct 14 2008, 12:49 AM Post #5 |
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except you would need to implant/put on whatever device to be detected by such thought police. |
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| Ninjerk | Oct 14 2008, 08:13 AM Post #6 |
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It will be a required implant in 80 years. |
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| Tenebrae | Oct 14 2008, 01:00 PM Post #7 |
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This is absolute horseshit. The human mind is the last bastion of secrecy. My thoughts are my own, if I choose to share them, I'll send you a goddamn email. I can see this being marketed as 'effective communication' but being applied as some sort of manchurian candidate mind control hokey. Either way I am of the impression we should spend more time and money on curing Cancer, and exploring space, and preserving the planet instead of making war an easier affair. |
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| NakieoN | Oct 14 2008, 04:10 PM Post #8 |
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Exploring space will make us not have to worry about cancer or preserving the planet altogether. |
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| Dervin | Oct 14 2008, 05:20 PM Post #9 |
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Probably not, if they can charge you for it they will, nothing will ever be "free" in a capitalist country like America. |
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| Ninjerk | Oct 14 2008, 05:24 PM Post #10 |
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Yeah, but can you imagine the marketing and security potential in being able to read people's thoughts? You wouldn't have to gamble on advertising and if you could read people's thoughts you wouldn't need to put up cameras on every street corner! |
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| NakieoN | Oct 14 2008, 05:44 PM Post #11 |
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But that's invasive... Also, just to branch the topic into new directions.... think about this... what if they were able to design a program, similar to a computer virus, that does anything the programmer wants... such as just frying our brain, controlling us (already stated above), or taking information. It could be very invasive. |
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| Ninjerk | Oct 14 2008, 06:44 PM Post #12 |
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It's a small sacrifice to ensure our security. |
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| Tenebrae | Oct 14 2008, 08:04 PM Post #13 |
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Sounds like a great idea! I sure do trust the government. |
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| albis | Oct 15 2008, 02:09 AM Post #14 |
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Fucking gook
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whats wrong w/ trusting your government. its an institution you created and abide by by choice. created by you for you, made up of people. don't be a hermit. trust your fellow man. |
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| Akilleys | Oct 15 2008, 05:47 AM Post #15 |
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haha obviously your first hand experience with our government is very limited |
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