Remote Controlled Humans(?)

Mr. Roboto

This was blogged by Roland Piquepaille on ZDnet.com last week. I wish I found this sooner:
Austrailian researchers have found a way to "guide" people by remote control.
You should be able to google more info on this.

Though the technology is still in its infancy, can you imagine what could happen with remote-controlled people? Develop this alongside human clonning, theoretically, you can create and endless army of disposable "meatbots" to do your bidding.

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silentpyjamas

i spent too long not finishing my novel and now someone's done my idea for real. i'm running away.

but seriously. one of the things that happens in my book is the government uses "meatbots" to keep "actual" war casualties low. creepy to look ahead now.
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cypher

Control of humans are easy just only give them the information you want with out the right information they can not think for them selfs it fun for me when I do that at school Mahahahaha LOL Laughing

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r3plikazt47

I think Al Gore is a "Meatbot". Very Happy

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iammany · Plugged in Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 37 Location: Sweden

That's sad. For me cyberpunk is all about politics, but perhaps politics of another kind. Not the Gore vs. Bush kind of "politics", but definetly about critique of our contemporary societies of control and for positive posthuman conditions of living. From a underground perspective, of course.
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Just a note on this, I think the Gore comment was probably far more a statement of his demeanor than his politics. I kind of thought it was funny. Personally, I don't even mind the follow-ups like Bush being a retard-bot, which also seems rather on target in many ways. Neither of these strike me as a "Gee I wish the {insert your political party} could smear X Candidate and take over the senate" type comment.

Regarding politics discussions on here, if we're talking about the absurdity that is the Democrat-Republican debates, I agree that these are best done elsewhere (unless its a commentary on the loss of representative democracy, for instance, that a cyberpunk future might portend). Then again, I think cyberpunk as a subject area certainly touches on many issues that are currently in the political sphere. The issue of governmental invasion into privacy certainly fits the bill, for instance, as does the merging of corporate and government concerns, etc.

To think that we would want to moderate those subjects away just doesn't make sense.

Neon Fantasy

Going back to remote controlled humans, can you imagine how weird that feeling would be. Like you turn without wanting to. Even if you knew what was happening and knew it was going to it would be so creepy. If you could do it on an unspecting victim from afar...
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TheNephew · Plugged in Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 71 Location: England

Blast from the past...
It was this thread that nearly prompted me to join last time it was on the front page all those year ago.

"But there is a trade-off: the volunteers need to walk while watching their feet or the sky."

I would assume that you would need someone sufficiently spaced out that they couldn't focus on their reference point to manage this.
It would be interesting though - easily the focal scene in setting up a futuristic noirish thriller.
Our hero/anti-hero meets a young lady in a bar, she buys him a drink, on the way home he begins to feel strangely tipsy and ends up 'staggering' halfway across the city to end up in a warehouse by the docks, where he is met by a dead body and the sound of approaching sirens.
For proper remote control there would have to be a precisely controllable rider on the brainstem, which is currently beyond both our capability technologically and biologically.
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