Remember Brainstorm?

[alfreda89]

From AP:

"We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots.

But manipulating humans?

Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was."

http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=49999804&subject=technology

Comments

remote controlled humans

[ramblin-phyl.livejournal.com]

Now that is scary.

Re: remote controlled humans

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Now that is scary.

Ditto...

[ulitave.livejournal.com]

suppose you lose the remote in the couch? then what?

Stephen R. Donalson wrote a terrible/brilliant sci-fi series called The Gap years ago. A main component of the series is a device much like that thingy.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Some days I feel like my maturity will be spent protecting myself and my computer, bank access, etc. from unwanted intrusion--mostly wireless.

I have this horrible vision of everyone walking around with aluminum foil wrapped around their heads....

[ulitave.livejournal.com]

[ulitave checks for his foil]

seriously, donalson wrote about "zone implants" developed to control some illness. They were ultra-low voltage electrodes implanted into the brain. People quickly found that they could be used to control another human being.

One character used the technoogy to make another into his personal sex slave, then the sex slave uses the control to make herself into a sort of superhuman. The original abuser winds up under the control of several devices.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I've heard that he projected some very scary stuff using very damaged people as examples. I didn't like most his fantasy books, so haven't tried the SF. He's written one dynamite short story, though-- "Unworthy of the Angel".