Feb 08 2007
A New Disruptive Development?
Just read the latest news: Reading hidden intentions in the human brain
If this discovery comes to fruition, it has to be a very disruptive outcome: if not in our daily life, at least in our perception of individual-society relations. I have to say I was never distressed by any technology before, until now that is.
There has always been some buffer between what is rational and what is private. Cognitive dissonance used to be the only link (albeit a Möbius-strip type of link) between the two spheres. Now the strip is broken and being flattened out. I can’t even describe how I feel right now: scared, upset, bewildered, excited, agitated …