Phil Wainwright
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Just a quick post, not sure if I am a bit out of date, but I watched a programme last night on criminal profiling.
Two areas struck me as concerning, on is the fact they now believe that they can profile someone to the point they 'know' they will commit a crime. I guess that could end up as people getting arrested for what they are going to do.... I am sure there was a sci-fi film about that a few years ago.... But apparently it is now fact. Computers are being used to pinpoint the date and time of a crime in advance!!!!!
The other one is a project at UC Berkley (hope spelling is right) where they showed a system that can pick up VIDEO from a persons mind. They can record dreams.... They can record images from the mind under questioning. They can show a subject an image and then 'see' that image through brain waves.
Yes the videoing of mental images is not very advanced (or it did not appear that way publicly), but who is to say what is being hidden from view. The experiment was a chap seeing elephants walking, and the recorded brain waves showed images that were 'there', just about. We are not talking HD here, more akin to the images first transmitted on Baird's mechanical television set.....
This is not conjecture, it is fact, and a bloody scary fact at that!
Two areas struck me as concerning, on is the fact they now believe that they can profile someone to the point they 'know' they will commit a crime. I guess that could end up as people getting arrested for what they are going to do.... I am sure there was a sci-fi film about that a few years ago.... But apparently it is now fact. Computers are being used to pinpoint the date and time of a crime in advance!!!!!
The other one is a project at UC Berkley (hope spelling is right) where they showed a system that can pick up VIDEO from a persons mind. They can record dreams.... They can record images from the mind under questioning. They can show a subject an image and then 'see' that image through brain waves.
Yes the videoing of mental images is not very advanced (or it did not appear that way publicly), but who is to say what is being hidden from view. The experiment was a chap seeing elephants walking, and the recorded brain waves showed images that were 'there', just about. We are not talking HD here, more akin to the images first transmitted on Baird's mechanical television set.....
This is not conjecture, it is fact, and a bloody scary fact at that!