George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

[Shojin]

It's only a matter of time before the Thought Police come...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/03/05/mindreaders.ap/index.html

[Piccolo]

Paranoid much?

I guess i am a skeptic and doubt a mind will ever be able to get "read". i.e. thoughts and images. There are too many intentions that can run through someone's head for anyone to be able to acurately interpret them.

The article is interesting.
For the moment, reading minds is a cumbersome process and there is no chance scientists could spy on decision-making surreptitiously. Haynes' studies focus on people who choose between just two alternatives, not the infinite number present in everyday life.

But scientists are making enough progress to make ethicists nervous, since the research has already progressed from identifying the regions of the brain where certain thoughts occur to identifying the very content of those thoughts.

I definitely would not go so far as to refers George Orwell's Nineteen Eightyfour "Thought Police". THAT was an awesome book. But too many people forget that it was FICTION.

[Piccolo]

Edit:

then again ... "Wag the Dog" was fiction... so i guess you never know ...