From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 15:44:48 MST
--- cryofan@mylinuxisp.com wrote:
>
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
Fairly straightforward to use as an enhancement, if it
does what they say it does. Say you're about to do
something you know in advance you don't want to
remember: switch it off, with a pre-set timer to
switch back on when the forgettable experience has
passed. Honorable (to most) applications include most
soldiers (seeking to avoid post-traumatic stress
disorder), and people who have to document - and thus,
look at - opened mass graves; dishonorable (to most)
applications include most forms of prostitution (if
the sex is good enough that one would want to remember
it, that would seem to correlate with truly voluntary
participation), and certain soldiers (like the ones
who would provide said graves' contents).
Anyone care to speculate on how long, after it is
approved for human use (beyond mere trials), someone
will hook it up this way? (Which is not to say how
long *from now* it'll come into use: it'll go through
the standard trials for its intended use whether or
not anyone but us thinks of this.)
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