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Tech mind control? It's not what you might think

Interesting article, but you glossed over the fact that most of the advances were first developed in order to have an advantage in warfare.

I guess that makes him the conjurers assistant.
Last I saw Peter here, he was telling us how we should be upset with the EU protections of privacy, and how they're obstructing business.
And that, coming from someone who used to work for a company that got involved in a very publicized privacy infringement scheme... well, it just doesn't signal "upstanding morals", does it?
I remain willing to extend benefit of doubt, but the room for doubt just keeps shrinking.
And now this? Shame on those who speak of human dignity in the face of progress? Poor doubt, caught in a devilish Shrinking Room -deathtrap.

AnsuGisalas = I actually just try to open minds to new possibilities and the pros and cons of technology. Having had to deal with a few people who had strokes or degenerative brain problems I can tell you a lot about the dangers and human dignity in some detail. I take my hat off to those trying to find a cure, those trying to engineer repairs, and those having to live with the condition. And it isn't very 'moral' to just stand and watch....so I just pitch in where my experience and talents can help.

Unless you plan on getting rid of, say, your microwave oven. Sure, the idea of a microwave oven came about because sailors in WW2 discovered that food placed too close to the radar antennae ended up getting cooked, but "based on military technology" or "funded in part by money from the military" "evil & must be cleansed from our lives".

spdragoo@ = And a few people got accidentally cooked too. But before this they had HF ovens too. In my life I have had one or two RF burns bt accident. The sun worries me the most though!

Especially with summer coming up, it's time for my wife to invest in more SPF 45+ sunscreen (she's had a sunburn from the sunlight coming through a car window in the past)...

I feel its important to look at a new concept or a new invention, or whatever, from both sides of the coin.
1. how can it help us...
2. how can it harm us..
Only by understanding both are we working with the fullest information.
The Internet is an ideal example. It has given us much but with it comes New dangers and NEW problems.
So by all means, explore, invent and learn, but temper what you do, with wisdom.
Just because we 'can' does not always mean we should.