Drugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers’ brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. borders.
These are just a few of the military uses imagined for cognitive science — and if it’s not yet certain whether the technologies will work, the military is certainly taking them very seriously.
“It’s way too early to know which — if any — of these technologies is going to be practical,” said Jonathan Moreno, a Center for American Progress bioethicist and author of Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense. “But it’s important for us to get ahead of the curve. Soldiers are always on the cutting edge of new technologies.”
(via Cryptogon)
December 6, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Robots linked directly to their controllers’ brains oh my, it’s like lions and tigers and bears; or it’s as simple as taking what we do in our dreams everynight, usually without breaking a sweat, and putting it behind the wheel.