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The Future of Mind Control
LarsWestergren writes "The Economist has two interesting articles about neuroscience. While a lot of media ink has been spent discussing the possible gains or threats of genetics, not much has been heard about the advances made in neuroscience which has a greater and more immediate threat of "overturning the essential nature of humanity". For instance, test subjects who were treated for depression by having their pleasure centers stimulated with electrodes fell in love with the experimenters. New drugs to combat shyness, forgetfulness, sleepiness and stress are on the way to the market, as well as a new breed of Super-Prozacs. The articles are here and here."
"You have quite a good memory. Do you take MemAid, Keeper, or ReCall?"
"No... I'm a clean."
"A real clean? You don't take any mindpills? What an odd way to live!"
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
Just because you're ignorant about psychoactive pharmaceuticals, doesn't mean you need to be afraid of them. That's a decidedly non-geek attitude to have about a technological advance. It's not the tools that are good or bad, it's how they are used.