What could the future be like with the use of brain scanning? The possiblities are endless. Let's imagine it's year 2050 and the United States has completely developed and mastered the art of brain scanning or so they think. They use brain scanning as a way to catch the bad guys before they are in fact bad. All efforts have gone into developing this and enacting it.
There is one main building where all thoughts are filtered in Washington D.C., but each city has their own individual unit. Men are in the "office" 24/7, to make sure to catch all possible bad or violent thoughts that come through the program. There are also men on call to be sent to stop an act before it may occur. This could mean having seconds before someone is going to commit a violent act. If you don't make it in time, you are partly to blame for the crime that takes place. If this program spits out your name, you are then arrested and kept for what your sentence for what that crime would have been. There are no longer any courts or judges, all faith is put into this new technology. Do you therefore believe that this program will never make any errors? To put your entire legal system in the hands of technology. In the big piture this wonderful addition has been made to our legal system that allows people to be caught for crimes without the crime actually occuring. What if the program shuts down? With this type of development someone always finds a way around... would that be possible with this? How could the program decifer between thoughts that one intends to act upon and ones that they never plan on doing anything? There is no case here for innocence. We wouldn't have enough room for all these people. If our whole world was focused on this type of technology I think there would be complete chaos. Humans would fear to think at all. I believe that this would takeover all together. We would walk around trying never to have a bad thought enter our minds.
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