Posthuman Blues

Remote-Controlled Humans

"NTT researchers also point, rather improbably, to GVS's potential for collision avoidance. A demonstration video shows a young man walking down the street nearly run over by a passing motorcycle, steered to safety at the last minute by a guardian angel wielding a remote control." (Via KurzweilAI.net.)

I bet Republicans would secretly love to develop a new and better version of this. Just think of the applications. Why bother with such primitive devices as rigged voting machines when the actual voters can be reduced to a compliant neurological marionettes? And that's just for starters.

Wait . . . I feel this sudden, overwhelming urge to plaster my car with "Support Our Troops" magnets! Can't . . . resist . . .