RESEARCHERS FROM TORONTO HAVE DEVELOPED A WAY TO READ OUR
MINDS, SORT OF.
BUT THIS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IS ESSENTIALLY SETTING THE
GROUNDWORK IN ORDER TO CREATE WHAT IS NECESSARY TO HELP PEOPLE
WHO ARE PARALYZED TO COMMUNICATE IF THEY ARE HAVING
DIFFICULTIES SPEAKING.
THAT IS THE UPSIDE OF IT, BUT OF COURSE, IF THIS TECHNOLOGY IS
ADVANCED TO THE POINT WHERE PEOPLE COULD BE USED
THE ARE IN THE MOMENT TO BEING ABLE TO READ PEOPLE'S MINDS.
HOW DID THEY DO THIS?
THEY ARE LOOKING AT THESE IMAGES
ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN THOUGHT
THE ELECTRODES THAT ARE CONNECTED TO THEIR HEAD IS
BASICALLY MEASURING THE ACTIVITY OF THEIR BRAINS AND THEN
THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET SUPER INTERESTING.
SO
THINK ABOUT IT THIS WAY.
THEY LOOK AT IMAGES ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN, SOMEONE'S
FACE IN THIS CASE AND THEN LATER ON, THROUGH THE DATA THAT
WAS RECORDED THROUGH THE EEG, THE SCIENTISTS WERE ABLE TO
RE-CREATE WHAT THESE INDIVIDUALS SAUNAS IMAGES.
SO IT WASN'T PERFECT, BUT WHAT WAS FASCINATING IS HOW ACCURATE
IT WAS COMPARED TO LET'S SAY HOW A PERSON WOULD DESCRIBE A
PERSON'S FACE LATER ON.
WHEN I FIRST SAW THE HEADLINE I WAS LIKE, NOT BUYING IT.
I KNOW WE GET ALL THESE FUTURISTIC ARTICLES AND
SOMETIMES PEOPLE GET CARRIED AWAY, NOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE
ABLE TO READ YOUR MIND, WHEN IS A HOLIDAY COMING, THAT IS THE
THING I'M INTERESTED IN AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE PROMISE AND IT
STILL IS IN HERE BUT WHEN I READ HOW THEY DESCRIBED HOW THEY
DID IT I WAS LIKE, OH, THAT WILL WORK.
BUT THE KEY HERE IS, THEY SHOW YOU THE IMAGES AND THEN RECORD
THE ELECTRIC ACTIVITY IN YOUR HEAD SO THAT WHEN THEY SEE THAT
SAME PATTERN IN YOUR HEAD, THEY KNOW THE IMAGE IS SO DO NOT
LET THEM RECORD YOUR HEAD IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I'M SERIOUS.
WEAR FOIL.
EVERYONE HAS TO WEAR THE FOIL.
THIS IS LITERALLY AN EPISODE OF BLACK MIRROR AND IT FOR
ME PERSONALLY IT WAS THE SCARIEST EPISODE BUT IT IS
THE SAME KIND OF SITUATION WHERE AN ORDER FOR SOMEONE TO
READ YOUR MIND, THEY HAVE TO PUT SOME GADGET ON YOUR HEAD SO YOU
ARE RIGHT, DO NOT LET PEOPLE PAY GADGETS ON YOUR HEADÖ HAPPENED A
BECAUSE IT HAS BEGUN AND THEY SEE THE PICTURES ARE NOT
BAD AND BETTER THAN MEMORY AND THEY SAY LOOK, HE CAN
REALLY HELP PEOPLE THAT IS ALWAYS HOW IT STARTS.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU CANNOT SPEAK THEY CAN SEE THE IMAGES, RECORD
HOW YOUR BRAIN RECEIVES THOSE IMAGES AND WHEN YOU THINK
THAT AGAIN, IT WILL SHOW THAT IMAGE TO SOMEONE SO IN A
SENSE, YOU ARE SPEAKING TO THEM.
THE PROBLEM IS YOU CANNOT CONTAIN IT SO IF YOU ARE JUST,
YOU KNOW, THEY RECORDED ALL OF THOSE IMAGES AND YOU DID NOT
WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT CUTE GIRL AT THE MALL, BUT THEN I
CAME TO YOUR HEAD AND THEN YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS THERE, ONE OF 1000
DIFFERENT PROBLEMS THAT IT COULD CREATE AND SO IT COULD BE USED
FOR GOOD, BUT THEN ONCE THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE,
IT COULD BE REALLY HELPFUL IN THE TIMES UP IN ME TO MOVEMENT.
YOU COULD HAVE A TON OF EVIDENCE THERE FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN
THE WORKPLACE BUT I MEAN, YEAH.
THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS IN WHICH THIS COULD BE ABUSED EYES
STARTS TO FEEL LIKE TRANSFER OF CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT TOO
FAR AWAY AFTER THIS.
I HATE ALL OF THIS TIME SORRY.
I DON'T LIKE ANY OF IT.
I SEE HOW IT COULD POTENTIALLY BE GOOD BUT JUST DOING A
QUICK COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND KNOWING HOW TECHNOLOGY
ALREADY GETS ABUSED AND USED AGAINST US.
I JUST DO NOT WANT ANY OF THE STOCK
LOOK, FIRST OF ALL WE DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE BECAUSE WE
CAN TRY TO STOP AND IT WILL NOT WORK.
SOMEBODY ELSE A ELSE IN THE WORLD WILL BE LIKE, IT IS YOUR
OPINION BUT WE ARE GOING TO DO IN THIS COUNTRY AND THEN IT WILL
SPREAD AND SPREAD AND YOU CANNOT STOP TECHNOLOGY, BUT I LIKE THE
SPIN THAT SIMONE PUT ON IT AS PART-TIME TRANSCENDENTALISTS AND
TAOIST THAT IF WE THEN USE THIS TO SHARE CONSCIOUSNESS IN A
SENSE THEN WE ALL BECOME ONE.
BUDDHIST SURVEILLANCE.
I LIKE THAT.
THE NSA STARTS,
THEY'RE LIKE TAOISM, I LIKE THIS.
BUT THE ONE GOOD THING SERIOUSLY IS IF WE ALL FIND OUT WHAT EACH
OTHER IS THINKING, AND THE BEGINNING THERE IS GOING TO BE
MADNESS AND TERRIBLE THINGS THAT PEOPLE FIND OUT, LIKE WHAT
IN THE WORLD, RIGHT?
AND THEN PROBABLY, HOPEFULLY AT SOME POINT WE WILL GO OH,
EVERYBODY WAS THINKING IT.