Brain Will Be Battlefield of the Future, Warns US

Anti-Globalism sends this except from the Guardian: "In a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, leading scientists were asked to examine how a greater understanding of the brain over the next 20 years is likely to drive the development of new medicines and technologies. They found several areas in which progress could have a profound impact, including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person's state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision. ...The report highlights one electronic technique, called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves using electrical pulses to interfere with the firing of neurons in the brain and has been shown to delay a person's ability to tell a lie."

Comments

Re:Delay a person's ability to tell a lie

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, they've figured out what brainwaves are active during the lying process already, and it's more accurate than a polygraph. I saw it on Myth Busters so it must be true.

Re:A new tech field just opened up

[mrgodzilla]

I think you mean Frank Luntz.

Shock Value:

[jkiller]

You can't call it electrocution when they're not dying from electrical shock.

Re:Brain battle

[pipingguy]

Bush Derangement Syndrome does seem to be a valid affliction though.