Thought detecting machine

Alan Yu, Lieutenant Colonel Taiwan National Defense Department has written a lucid article on “Thought detecting machine”. He says he came across the news through two sources. One is an article in a Hong Kong daily in the 1970 and another was more direct. He read a classified military document while he was a colonel in the Taiwanese army in 1984. Both stated the existence of the machine and that it was obtained from the U.S.

He goes into the details of how it is operated and what it can do. It appears that by sending electromagnetic radiation on the subject from two different angles and obtaining brain wave patterns from the person under scrutiny a computer can analyze them and come up with what the person was thinking and imagining at the time of the capture. The computer monitor can show the wave patterns in words and pictures after it was processed by the CPU. If this was possible in the 70’s and the 80’s what would be the present state of the technology with more advanced computers, more sophisticated pointing devices and more wide spread monitoring capabilities.

It seems we are not free even to dream any more. This is total control. Freedom has ceased to be a birth right. It most probably is the death right now. If you want to be free, be dead my friend. There is no freedom in this small planet. There used to be such a barbaric thing in the distant past, the poor bastards, they did not know the first thing about life, freedom indeed, what a wicked notion. Who is free, dude? None is really free. There is no absolute freedom in the world. Everything is relative see! But we the more equals, we know how to grant or deny freedom even in the relative sense. We are the ruling elite, we make rules and we break them. Never complain. That is our prerogative, never question. Obey us and we will punish you in return.

We are kind you see we know your needs. We know that what you want is attention. We are giving you plenty. We are giving you attention twenty four hours a day, seven days a week all through the course of your life. What more you need? You should be grateful, but instead you are asking questions. Do not trouble us with your silly stupid questions. You are not little children any more, you are full grown slaves.

So shut up and put up with us. We are all that you are going to get.