Nita Farahany admits the discovery that we’re already tracking brain activity in the workplace made her shudder. But she is now hailing the benefits, insisting that they can be used without abuse.
My friend works in one of Russia’s bigger telecom companies. A few years ago they’ve tested a technology that could create “heat maps” of a person’s activity based on the footage from security cameras. By heat map they meant colouring various areas of the workspace, depending on how much time a person spent there (getting “hotter” the more time spent).
No, I think brain activity can already be monitored by smatphones, since I sometimes experience strange events in the night.
While having strange dreams I sometimes wake up and the smartphone blinks some seconds after I wake up. The phone is in plane mode though.
So either plane mode is fake and it’s me that’s awaken from some phone radio activity, or the phone is able to detect my brain activity.
My friend works in one of Russia’s bigger telecom companies. A few years ago they’ve tested a technology that could create “heat maps” of a person’s activity based on the footage from security cameras. By heat map they meant colouring various areas of the workspace, depending on how much time a person spent there (getting “hotter” the more time spent).
I think some smartphones already integrate it.
Tracking geolocation I take it?
No, I think brain activity can already be monitored by smatphones, since I sometimes experience strange events in the night. While having strange dreams I sometimes wake up and the smartphone blinks some seconds after I wake up. The phone is in plane mode though. So either plane mode is fake and it’s me that’s awaken from some phone radio activity, or the phone is able to detect my brain activity.
Yeah, tech is getting used in increasingly dystopian ways thanks to wonders of capitalism.