Bill GreenANGRY BLOGGERS AND SOLDIERS BEWARE
June 17th 2008 02:05
Angry bloggers and soldiers beware. The Pentagon is backing a device to track potentially dangerous brainwaves. The name of the device – the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System program, or CT2WS – is ostensibly to be used to focus on angry brain waves. However the $6.7 million grant to develop the device is phrased in such a way that there is a great deal of confusion on how they will work.
Surely it’s a typo when they say, “ the device will tap a user’s brainwaves to hone in on threats.” This could be amusing. Do they give the device to an individual on their own side that they suspect of showing increasing dissatisfaction with soldiering? The device begins exploring his brain patterns and rhythms and, finding a subversive anger, it blows the brains out.
No, this couldn’t be right, you might reason. But then the CIA did conduct the goat experiment. A dozen goats in a room with a dozen agents who had to kill the goats with their minds. It didn’t work. That was a comparatively cheap experiment and if you looked at the budget and saw the purchase of a dozen bleaters and the rent of a sound proofed room , $2,000, you might guess it wasn’t a serious experiment. But $6.7 million for a new type of binoculars with which the combatant scans a landscape of houses and hones in on angry brains everywhere. As you may guess it has its serious implications.
Most soldiers who are frustrated with their army equipment and the approaching enemy are all targets. When there is a burst of excruciating anger flaming across the binocular lenses we should all duck.
A third use outlines its use with a custom helmet equipped with electrodes placed on the scalp to record neural responses to the presence or absence of potential threats. This means the soldier can’t quite see the threat he knows exists. Taking this into account the helmet could only be used on soldiers who are stoned and see a threat but are too fucked to respond: the machine will respond for them. I hope the manufacturers of these binoculars, Northrop Gruman Corp, realise that stoned minds can also play dangerous games. It has to be admitted many grunts just see their senior officers as the enemy. See those angry goats on the hill my man, destroy them with your mind.
Surely it’s a typo when they say, “ the device will tap a user’s brainwaves to hone in on threats.” This could be amusing. Do they give the device to an individual on their own side that they suspect of showing increasing dissatisfaction with soldiering? The device begins exploring his brain patterns and rhythms and, finding a subversive anger, it blows the brains out.
No, this couldn’t be right, you might reason. But then the CIA did conduct the goat experiment. A dozen goats in a room with a dozen agents who had to kill the goats with their minds. It didn’t work. That was a comparatively cheap experiment and if you looked at the budget and saw the purchase of a dozen bleaters and the rent of a sound proofed room , $2,000, you might guess it wasn’t a serious experiment. But $6.7 million for a new type of binoculars with which the combatant scans a landscape of houses and hones in on angry brains everywhere. As you may guess it has its serious implications.
Most soldiers who are frustrated with their army equipment and the approaching enemy are all targets. When there is a burst of excruciating anger flaming across the binocular lenses we should all duck.
A third use outlines its use with a custom helmet equipped with electrodes placed on the scalp to record neural responses to the presence or absence of potential threats. This means the soldier can’t quite see the threat he knows exists. Taking this into account the helmet could only be used on soldiers who are stoned and see a threat but are too fucked to respond: the machine will respond for them. I hope the manufacturers of these binoculars, Northrop Gruman Corp, realise that stoned minds can also play dangerous games. It has to be admitted many grunts just see their senior officers as the enemy. See those angry goats on the hill my man, destroy them with your mind.
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