"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind," wrote the playwright John Milton in 1634.
But, nearly 400 years later, technological advances in machines that can read our thoughts mean the privacy of our brain is under threat.
Now two biomedical ethicists are calling for the creation of new human rights laws to ensure people are protected, including "the right to cognitive liberty" and "the right to mental integrity".
Scientists have already developed devices capable of telling whether people are politically right-wing or left-wing. In one experiment, researchers were able to read people's minds to tell with 70 per cent accuracy whether they planned to add or subtract two numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @05:56PM (2 children)
Obviously because the US is stuck in its racist, sexist ways (see: torchlit vigil at the Robert E. Lee statue that's been in the news)
Defending a statue that's part of the collective history of the United States doesn't make you racist or sexist. We're getting to the point where some people won't be satisfied until every statue of old, white men has been torn down and their names removed from the history books.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @08:31PM
The Confederacy lost! Get over it!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday May 16 2017, @06:43AM
We're getting to the point where some people won't be satisfied until every statue of old, white men has been torn down and their names removed from the history books.
The past is just another enemy.