Oct 31, 2008

Portfolio 5:My new technology---Minder Reader
Reading the two articles is the first time I heard about the mind reader technology and I feel it is mysterious. By the general introduction from the two articles I know there are both positive and negative effects. A question raised is how we can make use of this cutting edge technology and what should we do to minimize the potential unethical abuse of it. That is a problem needs to be solved.
If I am a researcher on this field, firstly I would guarantee that technology itself does not have any flaws so that it will not cause bad influence on its users. Achieving this requires researchers to be responsible and careful, which are the characteristics I need to have.
After making sure it is safe, I can put it into market. I am glad to see that my technology benefits a lot of users, but it is possible that some lawless people would make use of it to some illegal things, which is not what I want to see. For example, terrorist may use it to steal the national confidentiality. Because of this potential threat of abusing my technology, a new task comes to me. I would develop a powerful and intelligent program which can detect the abuse of my technology. Once someone wants to do bad things by it, this mind reader can tell by itself and loss its function immediately.
Human develop new technology by hoping that it can help us rather than harm us. We should aware the possible results brought by our innovation. If there is any potential threat, we need to think about it and make it safer.

5 comments:

weijie said...

I also feel mysterious that the computer can read our mind. I think the computer become more and more intelligent. You article gives us some advice on how to prevent from the illegal attack, which will be useful for the people from this field to consider of. We need to master the new technology careful and safely.

Chien Wuan Lee said...

Computer that reads human mind is an interesting topic.However,there are really a lot of security issues related to it.

YIN MINGBAO said...

I agree with you the users' safety is the most important thing. What we need to do is to guarantee their safety while using our products.

TONG YU said...

interesting topic of mind reader.however before this technology beacomes realistic, there are alot of ethic issues we should consider!

Wu Tong~ said...

In fact each kind of new technology will face such problems, the government should take actions on it and it needs time for human beings to accept it.