They REALLY Can Read Your Mind Now!

Hello Minority Report! Welcome 1984! With all the possibilities of science, why exactly are scientists focusing on building scanners that can read your intentions? Anyhow, the story here is that a team of world-leading scientists have developed a powerful technique which enables the user to read another person's intentions before they commit an act. Sure, this will become handy when paroling inmates, or checking suspects and other possible evil-doers. In theory.

What about the implications to the rest of us? The new technique can read your intentions. But what about the difference between passing thoughts and real intentions? That's deeper than just reading what's on your mind right now. And, moving on deeper, secrets, fantasies, passwords, etc... If this technique is ever completed and perfected, what's to stop it from becoming mandatory in everyday life? Sure, the scientists working on this are equally concerned of the possible implications of the mind-reading technique, but say that they are minimizing the risks. Um, sure, in the right hands there are little or no risks. What about in the hands of someone with the desire to rule and control? Show me one future leader portrayed in futuristic movies in a controlled, minimal privacy society who actually cared for his or her people and made life enjoyable for them...

Thankfully, this is all still a long long way from actually becoming a useful, everyday practise, but it's on it's way. Slowly but surely...

Sources:
Neuroscientists read people's intentions with brain scan - Engadget
Slashdot | Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions
The brain scan that can read people's intentions | Science | Guardian Unlimited