This discovery that people can read the output from your brains and can even identify images from it sounds absolutely great. Read here. A step forward for recording peoples memories and watching them ‘offline’ so to speak as in ‘Strange Days‘. In many ways better than TV.
However, I think this could revolutionise Justice. Not the justice we have in the UK of course but real Justice. I bet this could identify whether we are telling the truth or not.
Imagine going to court and listening to witness nd knowing, absolutely knowing, that they are telling the truth or a lie. Saves all that pesky beyond doubt questions you end up asking yourself in the jury room.
‘Did you kill that man’ ‘No’ *beep*(machine voice)That was a Lie*beep ‘Damn. Caught out’
Now although the recording and playback has a way to go before it is marketable. I bet the lie detector can’t be so difficult. Hope we get one in time for the next elections. Although the repeated *beep*(machine voice)That was a Lie*beep will soon move beyond parody to downright horror.
What was that film where they could identify a crime before it happened?
Minority Report. A short story by Philip K. Dick. But it wasn’t identifying crimes it was predicting them and it wasn’t always getting them right. However the ‘criminals’ identified were treated as if it was identified.
Sadly it seems that this goverment is doing this sort of thing on a much smaller scale. Making us all criminals without having commited any crimes.