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
3 Comments:
Hey, I think your introduction is too long :P Peace~
It is very true that everyone is curios about what the others are thinking. The first thing that came across my mind when i reading the article was i want to extract the EG1471 exam paper out from Ms Khoo's brain by using this technology xD
People will no longer has their own privacy and will live in fear. Hence, the only solution is that we have to control the accessibility of the technology by restricting it to the higher authority as Chritina mentioned in her post. :)
Well done and gambateh for your exam!!
regards,
Yik Zheng~
Hi, I think u may split the first paragraph into two paragraph as two different ideas are being elaborated. In the first part of the paragraph, you discussed about the benefits and in the second part of the paragraph, you discussed about the disadvantages. I think the structure of the essay will be better if these two ideas are being written in two separate paragraph :)
Hi Christina,
You have completed all 5 Portfolio tasks. Good work. All the very best for the exam, and remember to keep on working on improving your English. Read as much as you can, and take note not just of the content but also of the way that different writers write for different purposes.
By the way, I agree with Zheng and Xin Ni that your first paragraph for Portfolio Task 5 would be more effective if you divided it into 2: one on positive effects and another on negative effects.
Referring to Portfolio Task 4, it is incorrect to say "The PAP governments are". There is only one PAP government and you have already specified that you are referring to this government, so there is no need to use the plural form. We use the plural form for governments when we are not referring to any particular government. I hope this makes the use of "government" clearer for you.
Good luck!
Ms Khoo :)
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