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Re:Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and n... by FullMtlAlcoholc on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:46PM (#14268099)
Hopefully by the time this tech matures, any type of advertising that is not purely informational (i.e. tries to manipulate you without your consent or even your knowledge) is abolished and outlawed as the greater public starts to fully understand just how pernicious advertising is.

Otherwise, there's no way I'm getting a neuralace. Can you imagine the neurotech equivalent of a pop-up?

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Re:Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and n... by type0 on Saturday May 06, 2017 @03:46PM (#14281904)
> Can you imagine the neurotech equivalent of a pop-up?

Something along the lines of targeted advertising in Minority Report.

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Re:Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and n... by FullMtlAlcoholc on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @01:59PM (#14302398)
I imagine it'd be worse than that. Those are just personalized ads. You ever have a dumb jingle that you can't stand, but you can't get it out of your head? Imagine that not only with a visual component, but as a fully unfiltered thought you did not consent to.

In all honesty, that description sounds like a mental disorder.

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