They're already predicting, mathematically, what you'll want to watch, what you'll want to wear, and who you'll want to vote for. Obviously, the next step is for computers to read your mind—and that's just what they're working toward at Tufts University in Boston. Your computer won't be picking up details about your plans for the evening anytime soon. But researchers with the Human Computer Interaction group at Tufts have, thanks to a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, come up with a straightforward way for your computer to tell if you are overworked, under-worked or not working at all, according to a paper they will present next week at an Association of Computing Machinery symposium. That may not sound like penetrating perception, but the researchers hope that capacity will eventually help them gain real-time insight into the brain's more subtle emotional states and help provide pointers about how we can get work done more efficiently. The mind reading actually involves measuring the volume and oxygen level of the blood around the subject's brain, using technology called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The user wears a sort of futuristic headband that sends light in that spectrum into the tissues of the head where it is absorbed by active, blood-filled tissues. The headband then measures how much light was not absorbed, letting the computer gauge the metabolic demands that the brain is making.

The results are often compared to an MRI, but can be gathered with lightweight, non-invasive equipment. Wearing the fNIRS sensor, experimental subjects were asked to count the number of squares on a rotating onscreen cube and to perform other tasks. The subjects were then asked to rate the difficulty of the tasks, and their ratings agreed with the work intensity detected by the fNIRS system up to 83 percent of the time.

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The principal that all form reflects energy and all energy has awareness will eventually lead us to discover that all things are connected.

Good to see ya again Johnny and good point as usual.

err to have humans 'hooked up' to computers in the future and tell us how to run our lives...
It just seems an unnatural way for mankind to be heading (strictly my own p/s opinion though)


I know ppl will argue the point and well, theoretically i can't talk anyways because here i am yapp'n with you via cyber for a start lol!

Hi Rebel,

Good to see you as well.

I have worked with computers most of my life and I do sense an awareness in them. Not like the study suggests BTW. My connection is not unlike a farmer with the earth and the crop, or a carpenter with his project, or anyone solving mechanical problems like in auto repair. After a while you can sense where and what needs your attention.

I can tell when the computer has a problem if its the application program, the operating system, or a specific hardware component. Many times I have been told by computer repair people that a particular part needs to be fixed and I will inform them what it actually is. They are always surprised when I am correct. I always say it was a lucky guess. So you could say I am a lucky guy when it comes to computer issues.

John

It only takes common sense to know what someone will want to eat, drink, watch, etc. But if you let that person be aware that you're trying to predict them, goodluck .

Most people can already predict their loved ones.

This is both interesting and scary, it could be used for mind therapy, I just hope that the government won't develop a way to read our minds unwillingly. This experiment has been made public, but how do we know they haven't already created a mind reading system much more complex than this one?
Even if, they already have other subtile ways of controlling us, maybe they won't even need that...