[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] What if companies could read your mind? Neurotechnology is coming, and your cognitive liberty is at stake. - The Boston Globe

[Robert Primak]

 I also was able to read the article after dismissing the popup and clicking the read the article button. 
A lot of the content of the article is highly speculative, given the primitive state of brain research right now. The fact is, no tech now available or on the horizon can decode human thoughts, let alone change them. Memories are not understood well enough to know whether selectively erasing one or some of them is even possible. The human brain does not handle memory the way computers do it. And storage in the human brain is not a literal recording of perceived stimuli in exact chronological order at set locations.
So I am not at all worried about someone forcing me to have my memory retained or erased. And it will be a long, long time if ever before any police department or court of law can interrogate anyone's thoughts or intentions directly. 
Making laws without knowing what the tech will look like is way premature at this time. And any discussion of this topic belongs in the category of Science Fiction at this time. Though, a general statement of a doctrine of the inalienable human right to freedom of thought should be under consideration right now. That debate is long overdue. 

Like ChatGPT and other very limited AI,this new tech is being vastly overhyped. If you want to know whether you can trust what an "expert" says publicly, look at what they are trying to sell now. This expert is selling a book; others are selling half-baked or raw tech toys. Meta is selling its version of immersive VR hardware and services. 
Frankly at this point, I am totally not impressed. And totally not afraid of this new tech. This is not science so far; these are just the newest expensive toys and entertainment services. Any other claims would be fraudulent at this point.  
-- Bob Primak 

    On Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 09:10:38 PM EDT, Drew King (dking65 at kingconsulting.us) <dking65 at kingconsulting.us> wrote:  
 
 Hmm,

You are using a galaxy tab s8+
I'm using a Galaxy tab s7+

I did get a pop-up window with an opportunity to subscribe. Only in the upper left-hand corner was a close button, and then I was able to read the whole article.. I think that the Boston globe will limit your reading ability to a few articles per month..


Drew 

On March 19, 2023 8:46:08 PM EDT, David Lees <joeoptics at gmail.com> wrote:
Peter,You might want to summarize, because I don't think people without a paid Globe subscription can read it.

David Lees 
Tab S8+
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 8:31 PM <palbin24 at yahoo.com> wrote:


https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/14/opinion/if-algorithms-can-read-our-minds-can-we-preserve-freedom-thought/


Peter
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