Technology
these days is scary. Especially how rapidly it’s changed in the last 20 odd
years. Sue Halpern in her article Mind
control and the internet talks about how earlier this year universities
implanted people with chips and attached electrodes to their brain allowing
them to control items just by thinking about it. Michael Chorost had a
brain-computer interface implanted in his head after he went deaf. In his book,
according to Halpern, he is now a cheerleader for the rest of us getting kitted
out with our own, truly personal, in-brain computers. In her article, Halpern also
talks about how when you search online the results are targeted for you and
your specific likes and based on your previous searches. Halpern said the
search process is “personalised.”
“It’s not
difficult to see where this could lead—how easily anything with an agenda (a
lobbying group, a political party, a corporation, a government) could flood the
echo chamber with information central to its cause. (This, in fact, is what has
happened… with climate change.) Who would know?”
You are not
a gadget—yet.
Halpern, Sue (2011) "Mind Control & the
Internet", New York Review of Books June 23.
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