XPost: alt.psychology, sci.psychology, alt.mindcontrol   
   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
   Martha Bridegam wrote...   
   > Here's a creepy Microsoft project:   
   > "... The system would allow managers to monitor employees' performance   
   > by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial   
   > expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees   
   > could be dismissed on the basis of a computer's assessment of their   
   > physiological state."   
      
   The technology can also monitor psychological states, and recent advances   
   in MRI imaging give scientists the power to detect specific types of   
   thoughts by measuring neural activity in different regions of the brain.   
   There is no reason to believe such monitoring can't be done remotely in   
   the near future, so that governments, employers, spies, and saboteurs   
   will have the ability to remotely identify an individual through a   
   biometrics database, identify his physiological state - including which   
   drugs he might be taking, and even get a pretty good idea what he is   
   thinking about.  Orwell foresaw it all:   
      
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   "The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth   
   and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.   
   There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to   
   solve.  One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being   
   is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people   
   in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.  In so far as   
   scientific research still continues, this is its subject matter."   
   -- 1984   
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)