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Remote Control for Humans?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the like-having-help-hanging-a-painting dept.

FatMacDaddy writes "The SFGate is reporting on a remote control for manipulating humans through electrical stimulation of the inner ear nerves.The author of this article describes his experience with having a "remote control for humans" device used on him. The developers hope to use this with video games and other entertainment, but it might also be used as a weapon to disable people. An interesting read with perhaps some disturbing implications. Better get a second layer on those tinfoil hats!"

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  1. Pentagon's wet dream by vandan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    While I don't see this being used directly as a weapon, I can see the Pentagon plucking the National Guard from their shoot-to-kill mission in New Oraq, wiring them up with these headsets, and sending them off to Iraq Senior. With these devices, you can make damned sure your wet-behind-the-ears recruits will run full-speed into a hostile situtation without stopping to think about the possible danger to themselves.

    And it won't be long before they can control more than just running in a particular direction. Next step: that pesky trigger finger.

  2. They Live. We Sleep. What has science done?! by Bushido+Hacks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We are now certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that humans can be manipulated against their free will.

    If it can be used for evil, it will BE used for evil.

    Being forced to conform to an ideology that is not our own. Being forced to consume things that we do not need. Being forced to obey instructions even if we knew for certain that those things are wrong.

    What's not to stop the forces of man to make me swallow a pill the next time I have a headache and waking up disoriented and some where I don't want to be?

    Will I become a Manchurian candidate, programmed against my free will and soulless? Will they work ever so hard to break my spirit so that no thought exists except for the few who control it?

    What about the applications to other media? Television, Radio, and Telephone. It is terrible enough people rush to their pharmacist whenever Oprah suggest taking medication. What's not to say she won't force everyone who does not like here to become as pathetic as those who aren't being manipulated?

    There MUST be a way to beat it! Otherwise the world will be that of John Carpenter's They Live (1998 http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/them ovies/tl/tl.html/ )

    WAKE UP BEFORE THEY PUT US TO SLEEP!

    --
    The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.