OT: rat-bots

This is "creepy" that this technology exists and is treated in such an off-hand manner.

"If the rat correctly followed the cue and turned left, its reward-centre was stimulated, (by remote radio transmitter) filling the rat with a feeling of well-being."

Anyone else feel this way?
 
What REALLY worries me is this can and will (as everything has been) be exploited to be used as a weapon.
Also those computer chips used to ID pets are being tested on humans right now.

Although tech. is good, it's the people that use it that upsets me.

I think mankind is setting itself up for a downfall, real soon.
 
I agree it's a bit creepy - but I don't think the technology is really dangerous. The principles behind the experiment (being nominally a cognitive scientist, albeit really an historical linguist in disguise ;), I was 'forced' to learn about some of these things) have been well-known for some time - and actually used to treat things like phantom-limb syndrome (a common ailment of veterans..).

It couldn't really be used on humans because it's not really 'mind-control' or anything. It's largely an advanced version of conditioned response (like Pavlov's dog).

--B.

p.s. yes, of course it could be used as a weapon, almost any technology always has military possibilities - rat-spies is what springs to mind, or rats carrying bombs..
 
Harmless or not, my Cairn goes on steroids as of breakfast tomorrow.
 
Originally posted by Walosi
Harmless or not, my Cairn goes on steroids as of breakfast tomorrow.
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LOL, Wal.

On a less happy note, D7, this topic has been on my mind lately, too. I think Uncle Walt had it right in that Sorcerer's Apprentice bit. We will be the source of our own destruction.

S.
 
Came back from the library a while back. I left before reading this part of the thread. Out in the newer books section was a hardback nonfiction titled Germ or Germs something, on biowar. It claims the Russians have developed an undetectable whatchamacallit that has no symptoms and can't be countered. Nothing much happens once you've been infected except you die of old age rapidly.

I'll go and check it out tomorrow, if it's still there. :confused: :( :(

I'm also told that they never have stored nerve gas at the Navy Ammo Depot - Hawthone or the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant, and besides which they flew all of it out after the cannisters it was in started corroding. Why shouldn't I trust our government?
 
a general thought - technology is just like guns, it's not the technology itself, but how it is used that is the issue. I should think that whatever position one has on guns would carry over to technology.
 
RATS - forgot all about that book, maybe can remember fri.
 
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