{"id":1545,"date":"2008-02-26T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/26\/the-robot-takeover-is-getting\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T08:55:46","slug":"the-robot-takeover-is-getting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/the-robot-takeover-is-getting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Robot Takeover is Getting Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9156072bd52d52d27739207cb882f917-mind_control.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-9156072bd52d52d27739207cb882f917-mind_control.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>A mind control device &#8230; where your mind controls a video game, is soon to be developed, and is obviously the first step in the Robot plan to Take Over the World.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some scary new technology will soon be coming to market: video game controllers that let you use your thoughts rather than your hands. The EPOC neuroheadsets are &#8220;designed to detect conscious thoughts and expressions as well as &#8216;non-conscious emotions&#8217; by reading electrical signals around the brain&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reward now, punishment later.  <a href=\"http:\/\/primordial-blog.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/mind-control-technology.html\">[source: Primordial Blog]<\/a>Then there&#8217;s this:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news123230744.html\">Japanese to get portable personal trainers &#8212; on their ears<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>A Japanese firm on Tuesday unveiled a portable, personal exercise instructor in the form of a headset which will give instant advice by checking the pulse on the wearer&#8217;s earlobe.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news123230744.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously how the robots will communicate their desires to us.<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/fastsearch?order=date&#038;IncludeBlogs=105&#038;search=robots\">(see all my other posts on Robots and their plans)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mind control device &#8230; where your mind controls a video game, is soon to be developed, and is obviously the first step in the Robot plan to Take Over the World. Some scary new technology will soon be coming to market: video game controllers that let you use your thoughts rather than your hands. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/the-robot-takeover-is-getting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Robot Takeover is Getting Closer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[91,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-oV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}