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Screening Thought

Stephen Hershey

Jack Gallant and Shinji Nishimoto, neurologists from UC Berkely, have effectively decoded brain signals into virtual images using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

After a computer program was given over 200 days' worth of YouTube clips for preliminary analysis, the software was able to recreate continuous (yet blurry) footage of the films that patients were watching based on their brain activity. Gallant suggests this technology "...might be useful for artists or to allow you to recover an eyewitness's memory of a crime."

Russell Foster, a neuroscientist at Oxford, warns "it's absolutely critical for scientists to inform the public about what we are doing so they can... debate about how this knowledge should be used."

U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin has already considered integrating this technology into modern surveillance methods, which would certainly open a whole new perspective on privacy and ethics.

11-12-09

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big brother knows what you are thinking

Submitted by Nathan Clark on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 14:46.
scary

ha!

Submitted by ConsciousObserver on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 01:27.
I wonder how this black (meaning sinister) technology will fare once the majority of humanity has ascended into the "homo-luminous" state? ;-D Keep it comin, big brother, you fascist pieces of garbage. Try reading the mind of the Creator.
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are we morally equipped to

Submitted by mountain wind on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 07:22.
are we morally equipped to use this wisely?and they want to use it for marketing??! that's painfully absurd! i vote that we don't complicate things more than it is necessary; these days we have a lot to process, but instead we have more new mindbending tech to figure out what to do with.please dont put your wires in my brain.