ReSearch 6-7 Industrial Culture Handbook by Unknown

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actually the thought that produces the waveform which the computer can recognize. This is technological mental telepathy— even though it’s limited, it’s a beginning. MONTE: Don’t you think that some people are just extra-sensitive, and that’s what mental telepathy really is? HENRY: Definitely. Schizophrenics feel they are receiving radio transmissions from other people’s brains, and that they are transmitting their own brain waves to others. They could be people with very good “neural hearing” who can hear sounds the rest of us don’t hear. ANDREA: Isn’t there an invention which electronically monitors the eyes so that paraplegics can push buttons just by A whole nation could be held hostage by their own genetic codes. looking at them? HENRY: I’ve seen the actual state-of-the-art devices at SRI. Dr. Hewitt Crane showed me his invention which is not only for wheelchair invalids but also for fighter plane pilots who look at their targets, then push a button to fire the missiles. That’s probably the main reason it’s being developed. How does it work? Your eyeball isn’t a completely round sphere. The colored part of your eye sticks out a bit; that’s why your contact lenses don’t slip into the white part of the eye. They can bounce infrared beams off that part of your eye, and by gathering and analyzing the patterns of reflected light, tell where you’re looking in 3 dimensions. Since the shape of the lens changes to focus on near or far objects, the light reflected off the front and the light reflected off the back of the lens will form different patterns depending on the focal length. They’re making new discoveries in pupillometry; when you see something you like, your pupils will get dilated. They have pairs of pictures of girls, one unretouched and the other altered so as to have large pupils. Guys will always pick the girl with the dilated pupils. More attractive. If they want to find out if somebody’s gay, show them a homo pom flick, and watch their pupils! MONTE: Professional gamblers usually wear sunglasses so people can’t check their pupils to see whether they have a good hand. HENRY: These kind of technologies with military applications are usually kept quiet They have satellites with optical technology capable of reading license plates and recognizing faces from orbit. If it’s the best it’s probably top secret. VALE: What do you know about control by drugs, like hormones? HENRY: Hormones by definition are the natural drugs of the body. They can’t really make new hormones, but they can make new chemicals that mimic natural hormones, like birth control pills. MONTE: The receptors in your brain are shaped to fit certain types of chemicals. Heroin works because it’s similar to the brain’s natural opiates— endorphins and enkephalins. HENRY: Tranquilizers generally suppress neural activity. Any agent which is going to make it harder for a cell to fire, anything which raises the threshold at which firing occurs will depress central nervous system (CNS) activity. Shoot up speed, and there’s a lot of firing.

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