Willard come here, I need you...

[weirdwolf]

First mind-reading implant gives rats telepathic power

The world's first brain-to-brain connection has given rats the power to communicate by thought alone.

"Many people thought it could never happen," says Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Although monkeys have been able to control robots with their mind using brain-to-machine interfaces, work by Nicolelis's team has, for the first time, demonstrated a direct interface between two brains – with the rats able to share both motor and sensory information.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23221-first-mindreading-implant-gives-rats-telepathic-power.html

[Just17]

I'm not sure at all that I like where this is heading ......... 

[gseaman]

I think that Tex has been controlling us with his mind for some time. Old news ...




Galen

[kjpetrie]

The great thing about this is you wouldn't need laws anymore, because the Government could take over your body and make you sign the forms to have one planted in your baby at birth, and of course it could send the necessary signals to make you vote for it in the election, ensuring a 100% turnout and 100% majority.

Then there'd be no crime because nobody could do anything without the authorities knowing about it and anyway, they could control you so you do something else instead. No one would choose to do anything antisocial because they could only do what the Government wanted and the whole population would support whatever the national policy is.

What's not to like? You only think that because you haven't had the chip fitted and your taste altered. When it's done you'll love it because you'll be told to.

[Just17]

The great thing about this is you wouldn't need laws anymore, because the Government could take over your body and make you sign the forms to have one planted in your baby at birth, and of course it could send the necessary signals to make you vote for it in the election, ensuring a 100% turnout and 100% majority.

Then there'd be no crime because nobody could do anything without the authorities knowing about it and anyway, they could control you so you do something else instead. No one would choose to do anything antisocial because they could only do what the Government wanted and the whole population would support whatever the national policy is.

What's not to like? You only think that because you haven't had the chip fitted and your taste altered. When it's done you'll love it because you'll be told to.

Yes, I see there is no need for my concern, and you are of course right.

Bring it on!

[AndrzejL]

I'm not sure at all that I like where this is heading ......... 

SKYNET! Terminators! RUN! LOL!