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Chargement... The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnologypar Nita A. Farahany
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In my opinion this a good book on a very troubling subject which are the current and future breakthroughs in neuroscience. These can be taken with either a positive or negative spin. Positive would be the various ways these findings will maximize the human experience. Negative in how businesses and governments could manipulate or spy on us. I detect a positive bias by the author but she does try to point out the negative side. Very thought provoking. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A rock star academic explores the final frontier of personal privacy: your mind. Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings can be used against you. Where perfumers create customized fragrances to perfectly suit your emotions, and social media titans bypass your conscious mind to hook you to their products. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions. Neuroscience has already made all of the above possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the "universal controller" for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can severely threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination. Companies, governments, and militaries are all in: from contemplative neuroscience to consumer-based EEG technology, there have never been more ways to hack and track our brains. But access is just the beginning. Our brains can be changed with performance-boosting drugs, electrical stimulation, and even surgical interventions. Soon neuro-cinema, neuro-monitoring, and even cognitive warfare will be commonplace-the brain is the next battleground for humanity. The Battle for Your Brain by Nita A. Farahany dives deeply into the promises and perils of the coming dawn of brain access and alteration. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on neuroscience as it intersects with law and ethics, this highly original book offers a pathway forward to navigate the complex ethical dilemmas that neurotechnology presents, which will fundamentally impact our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The technology is evolving whereby we can better understand what our brains are doing and hence manipulate it and change what’s going on up there.
Author Nita A. Farahany wisely counsels us to update our laws and conventions of commerce to assert the primacy and sanctity of human thought before the technology outruns our capacity to contain it.
Already police and security agencies are adapting EEG data to catch crooks. Advertisers are calibrating campaigns against datasets of brainwaves. And software giants are testing new means of capturing our attention.
But this is only the beginning.
This book offers updates on the frontiers of human-machine interface, or rather brain machine interface (BMI). It includes experiments of manipulating computer games with collaborative thought, also managing groups of drones with thought…now THAT is chilling!
It also takes the idea of surveillance capitalism to another level. ( )