From the way the article describes this brain scanning device, it would seem probable that it could eventually be perfected into an instrument that could even measure the truth to a person's words in addition to their intentions. This of course opens up a whole new world of possibilities.
In the world I imagine, people would use this device when they want to know the truth about something. This use stretches to people who are getting married to an employer wanting more than a background check, and even on the president (there is a political joke in there somewhere).
However the wide uses of this device would have to be controlled. There maybe laws that would protect the people's minds or the device would be mercilessly abused by the people in power. In our democratic setting, I would like to think that there would be judges in place that decide (on a grading scale perhaps...?) when this technology should be used. These laws would be in place to protect the innocent from, forgive my crude language, having their minds literally raped.
Strong enforcement would have to be in place in order to keep the world from going insane. I say this because a world with this device would become a world without secrets and a world without secrets would decay into a world with strange forms of trust, relationships, and dullness. There would be people that would abuse this technology in so many ways that it is almost impossible to conceive. Instead of unveiling the truth, they may take this technology and shroud us in distrust and false impressions.
In a closing statement, I would not like to live in a world that could be so dramatically affected by this device. I feel that this technology has the possibility would transform the people using it into tyrants capable of reducing our world to a place of hate and mistrust.
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