Realtime brain scanning is getting pretty scary. They can tell what object you are thinking about and even what emotion you are feeling. And of course, there is now the inevitable "neuro marketing" field to exploit this technology to sell us shit. No doubt Google is heavily investing in these firms. - Jonathan Le Plastrier from Bookmarklet

an excellent way to hasten the destruction of our civilization - build machines to compel people to engage in economic activity based on a meaningless feedback loop of what stimulates the brain rather than careful deliberation about the consequences of said activity. - Robin Barooah from IM

I look forward to our future civilization in the Thunderdome. - Jonathan Le Plastrier

Robin, you could be describing television. =) - landonf@bikemonkey.org

well certainly advertising driven TV bears a strong similarity - Robin Barooah from IM