bungadiri
26 Oct 2005, 08:14 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Remote-Control-For-Humans.html
Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans
ATSUGI, Japan (AP) -- We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots. But manipulating humans? Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was. ...
...I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced -- mistakenly -- that this was the only way to maintain my balance.
The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it. I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands...
Actually, rather than anything sinister (such as forcing people to buy icky products like Pabst Blue Ribbon) the first thing to come to mind when I started reading this was that it might be a way of treating spinal cord injuries.
Of course my second thought was Camazotz, here we come.
Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans
ATSUGI, Japan (AP) -- We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots. But manipulating humans? Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was. ...
...I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced -- mistakenly -- that this was the only way to maintain my balance.
The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it. I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands...
Actually, rather than anything sinister (such as forcing people to buy icky products like Pabst Blue Ribbon) the first thing to come to mind when I started reading this was that it might be a way of treating spinal cord injuries.
Of course my second thought was Camazotz, here we come.