Monday, August 08, 2005

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 . . .

2 comments:

Kyle said...

Mac -

Yup...the video of the young girl teetering at the touch of a joystick was right creepy.

A portent perhaps. I rather believe it is us catching up with existing tech...albeit not publicly acknowledged.

Combine this with directional audio and displays with multiple images displayed simultaneously depending on viewing angle, and driving someone insane seems very, very, VERY easy.

Gaslighting someone used to take cleverness and patience. Now it just takes a trunkfull of gadgets.

Kyle
UFOreflections.blogspot.com

Carol Maltby said...

You could probably morph a picture of a jockstrap into the shape of one of those ribbons, print "Support our Troops!" on it, put it on the back of your car, and no one would ever notice.

Late Sunday afternoon I had to be the one to point out to the lads at the county sheriff's department that I had just driven past the library, right on the main street through the center of town (where they are really strict about a 30 MPH speed), and noticed that some enterprising youth had switched the letters on their display board sign around in the night to read cunttwat. I just said they used "obscenities," they were young enough cops that I didn't know if they could handle a soccer mom saying it with a grin. :)

People don't see what they don't expect to see, do they?