Friday, February 09, 2007

Even Our Thoughts Are No Longer Private

This report in the Guardian newspaper details how scientists can now (allegedly) divine your intentions from your thoughts. Are you lying? a racist? this new technique claims to be able to be able to distinguish your intentions by scanning the activity in your brain. So even the privacy of our own skulls has been breached--soon to be owned by a major corporation near you.....
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I'm Jeremiah, and I'm not talking about God being mad at us. I'm talking about us killing the planet as a life-support system with gasoline. What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world. We've become far too dependent on hydrocarbons, and it's going to suddenly dry up. You talk about the gluttonous Roaring Twenties. That was nothing. We're crazy, going crazy, about petroleum. It's a drug like crack cocaine. Of course, the lunatic fringe of Christianity is welcoming the end of the world as the rapture. So I'm Jeremiah. It's going to have to stop. I'm sorry.

Kurt Vonnegut