This is very serious... and expected. We all have distinct
brain waves that are well-correlated with such things a
pain, fear, self-assurance, deep meditation, love, hate, and
so on... one can suspect that with future advances in EM
transmitters, that these brain-waves can be simulated and
stimulated by the same type of electrical transmitter which
would sends RF signals, only tuned to the lower frequency
and other peculiarities of brain waves. The effect on the
conduct of an individual is likely to be overwhelming.
Oh come now. That's a huge stretch! There is no proof that you can control minds with this method, and even if you could it might take centuries to achieve such results.
People working in the other direction, using implanted sensors to let minds control external devices, have achieved considerable success. That seems like a much simpler problem. That's how the brain is designed to function, after all. It controls external devices; they do not control it. See:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/brain.html
And here is some guy that wants to add extra RAM memory to people's brains, to make up for memory disorders in the hippocampus:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65422,00.html
O brave new world!
- Jed
