Brain mapping
A computer that can read human being’s mind uses brain images to predict what he is thinking about. There can be positive and negative impact of brain mapping. The positive impact of brain mapping is using it to detect whether a person is lying. This can be use in police force to assist policemen to track criminals. It is extremely useful as policemen are able to reduce the time spent on questioning the suspect and more time can be allocated to investigate the identity of the criminals. Another positive impact of brain mapping is that it is able to detect signs of illness. For instance, Alzheimer, we can detect this illness even before we start to age. There is an increasing number of people who are diagnosed with this illness every year, if brain mapping is able to detect the signs of illness before it happens, more research can be done to reduce the effects of such illness. However, there are also negative impacts of brain mapping. For example, we are able to view what the person is thinking. This allows us to examine what is he thinking but it intrude he’s privacy. Even though we may want to know what he’s thinking on a particular issue, we can now look at what is going on in his head. In other word, everyone will know what we all are thinking if the technologies become widespread.If I am a researcher, I predict that human beings will use this technology to intrude one’s privacy. There are many people who are curious to know what other people are thinking about. They will abuse this technology to look at the mind of other people. To reduce the effects of this consequence, I suggest that this technology should only be used by higher authority. Even if they want to use this technology on someone, they will have to seek opinion from human rights group. This will protect the rights of the human being who will be using this technology.
posted by Christina Te @ 2:48 AM
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