Thread: Insect 'Spies' Fitted with Video Camera Implants

Does This make anybody else uneasy, but me?

The bit about sharks was funny. Man, gotta be on the lookout now...


Anyway, I think that's a cute idea, but I'm not the type to even think about the issue until there's any kind of indication that a. this actually works and b. there's a chance it will be used in my home.


They should install something of the sort into my cat. Damn, I'd be in so much trouble then..

In china they have a similar program. They place electrodes into the brains of Pigoens and by stimulating certain areas of the brain they can control a pigoens movement as its in flight, which means they have a remote control pigoen.

personally i dont like the idea, i love my pigoens!

Yes, but let's see if this actually works.

(Or if they tell us about it working or not anyway)

That's it, it makes me uneasy.

Bah, we're getting to that point in technology where I don't see how anyone can doubt things like this work. I'd bet any money they've got a bunch of other ideas that are seemingly more sci-fi that they've got going and we have no idea about.

Theres no such thing as privacy anymore. Hear of the MRI-sized mind reading device created, in the UK I think? Its only a matter of time before things like that are portable and used daily be regular people.

Privacy no longer exists, freedom no longer exists. These kind of things are just going to keep coming. This makes me very uneasy. I don't think people should have that kind of power.

I hate politics

Originally Posted by ExoByte

Hear of the MRI-sized mind reading device created, in the UK I think? Its only a matter of time before things like that are portable and used daily be regular people.

What? Link?

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There are many more articles, but this one is straight and to the point. Video and all.

Very unsettling O, but as usual the regular response I would expect would be "It's for the people's protection, of course."

there seems to be no backlash against these crazy technological advances that we constantly hear about. you would imagine there would be revolutionists trying to prevent this kind of thing, maybe there is. it is certainly worrying, but i am not surprised to be honest.

Linky!
It's interesting, but far from being useful - electrodes are bulky.

I don't know. I'm still not impressed. Btw, something like a video camera in the street doesn't exactly invade my privacy unless I want to shop lift.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Btw, something like a video camera in the street doesn't exactly invade my privacy unless I want to shop lift.

Well, as someone who didn't grow up as an angel (), I suppose my perspective is just a little different. A lot of my earlier years (and some of my present) were spent roaming the streets with friends, doing plenty of things that - while victimless and/or non-violent - would get us, at the very least, harassed by the police. For some of us, in some of the areas we live, it's just a part of growing up. Because of things like that, I have a big problem with not being able to roam around my own town/city/block without having government issued video cameras in my face 24/7.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Does This make anybody else uneasy, but me?

Oh of course not, its keeping Americans safe from the bad guys!






I swat all bugs anyway so, they can spend their millions of dollars on fly camera's, I'll just crush their dreams with a fly swatter.

I just have to share the following quote from one of my recent dreams...This kind of stuff totally freaks me out! Not because of the dream, but because it's just wrong to watch a persons every move...and I don't want to be watched while I'm walking down the street. I am not okay with public surveylance in any way. Let the police do the jobs we pay them to do...

Originally Posted by Interested1

I take a closer look as the passenger is getting out of the truck and I realize that it's John Travolta. He looks younger (like in Phenomenan), with hair like the angel movie he did, but scruffier and they both looked strung out. I start to walk around the back of the truck to go and talk to him and it turns on his heals to get back in the truck. He doesn't want to talk to me. He shuts the door and starts to roll up the window and I say, "No, now come on, just wait a minute. Seriously, I just want to ask you a quick question." He's holding a crack pipe in his hands (I'm not sure what a crack pipe looks like, but I knew it was one.) and he just looks at me and says, "Fine...ask your question." I make it quick because I know he doesn't want to talk to me and ask, "I just want to know why you're smoking crack in the parking lot of the police station. I meen, of all the places you could go...why the police station?" He looks like he's pleasantly surprised by my question and looks at me and says, "Well, why not? They're [parking lots] all police stations anyway, aren't they? I mean everywhere you go; gas stations, grocery stores, banks...they all have cameras inside and in the parking lots and you're being watched everywhere you go and they could call the police...so why not just go to the police station?" I look at him with wonderment at the answer I received...like I had just been imparted with some great wisdom and said, "Thanks!" and he just looked at me, gave me the John Travolta wink and two finger wave and went back to smoking crack as I walked into the police station.

Scientist/Sci-fi author David Brin wrote some essays years ago basically predicting that the end of privacy is inevitable, but not such a bad thing. The way he saw it, even if government holds on to these technologies as long as they can, eventually they will come into the hands of the people, and then not only will the powerful be able to know what anyone is doing at any time, but anyone will be able to know what the powerful are doing. With the end of privacy comes total transparency.

He looks like he's pleasantly surprised by my question and looks at me and says, "Well, why not? They're [parking lots] all police stations anyway, aren't they? I mean everywhere you go; gas stations, grocery stores, banks...they all have cameras inside and in the parking lots and you're being watched everywhere you go and they could call the police...so why not just go to the police station?"

LMAO! Brilliant!

John Travolta was the villain in one of my last dreams and ended up getting away from me. He's definitely a slick one.

INteresting thread we have here.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Does This make anybody else uneasy, but me?

No, that makes me want to do incredibly demeening things whenever a fly is in my house to make the guy watching pull his hair out and gtfo.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

No, that makes me want to do incredibly demeening things whenever a fly is in my house to make the guy watching pull his hair out and gtfo.

Or make him take PrintScreen pics of you and distribute them all around the internet, on his lunch break. Talk about a plan blowing up in your face!

Any chance to become famous.

Another thing you should be concerned about is the high level of DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide) found in drinking water all across the world. For those who don't know DHMO is a clear liquid whose use results in thousands of deaths each year. It is used in a large amount of industrial process and is a potent greenhouse gas.

Yes. Let's ban DiHydrogen Monoxide!