re: #99 pharmmajor

Big Brother making another strike against our freedoms.

“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.
— George Orwell, 1984”

“We’re teaching the computers to be more like human beings,” said Dave Schrader, an engineer with Teradata, a division of automatic teller machine manufacturer NCR. In an attempt to give consumers a better banking experience, Schrader is teaching ATMs to discern emotions. How many times have you answered security questions at an airport and wondered, “Why in the world would a terrorist answer them truthfully?” Schrader said the emotion-scanning technology could act like an instant lie detector, tracking whether people become nervous or afraid as they answer the questions.
“Identifying people’s reactions when they’re asked questions — their nonverbal clues that skilled detectives might pick up on — we can train the computer to pick up on those, too,” Schrader said.”

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Coming to a neighborhood near you.