MIND CONTROL AND THE INTERNET

Sue Halpern discusses how the internet is taking over our control and that we, in the end, will be connected by a BCI, a brain computer interface. A BCI is able to complete us completely and lets us communicate with another human, who has incorporated the computer, even without thinking through some wired electrodes. It takes the humanity from us and make us to a gadget.

S. Halpern also incorporates a lot about Google and how everything on the internet is personalised for us. The internet has changed and knows more about us than we do ourselves, as Google saves every time we click on a page on the internet.

This is for me both suggestive and scary thing, as I see myself as a human with a lot of abilities I want to give the world. I know that the internet is a big part of our society and are developing constantly, but I don’t want to be controlled by a computer brain, I want to develop my own ideas with my brain as it is developed naturally.

References

Halpern, Sue. ‘Mind Control and the Internet.’ New York Review of Books, 2011.