Get out of my head!

Dreams may no longer be secret with Japan computer screen

This is the craziest thing ever!  Japan is developing technology that’ll enable computers to project images from inside your brain on to a screen.  We’ll finally be able to see those crazy dreams of ours.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081211/sc_afp/sciencejapanbrainoffbeat_081211052641

CNN Hologram TV First

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOxW19vsTg

The future has arrived!  CNN debuts hologram technology on television for the first time.

the art of spin attacked by algorithms

David Skillicorn a mathmatics and computer science researcher at Queens University in Ontario Canada has developed a software program that uses an algorithm which ”evaluates word usage within the text of a conversation or speech to determine when a person ‘presents themselves or their content in a way that does not necessarily reflect what they know to be true’,” and has used this program to analyze the speeches of the current political campaign.  This is an interesting use of technology to decipher psychology, but (this could just be my paranoid nature talking) is also a potentially scary development.  What happens if in the future, we were to rely solely on the algorithms judgement of true and false, sincire and insincire, innocent and guilty?  Could make for more trouble than its worth……. also, could this kind of technology be utilized to familiarize robots/androids with human psychology and imbue realistic emotive responses in them ? ———–read about it here.