Or lie detectors. Especially when employed to monitor entire rooms at once.

“Your response during the two-minutes hate did not show wide enough variation in response to scenes of our enemy Oceania and images of Big Brother. Please report for conditioning.”

Sure, it may not be at the government level except at certain agencies, however imagine when this sort of mentality is used to measure corporate culture. Your subconscious responses during your annual reviews and corporate pep rallies may take on a whole new dynamic.

Please drink a verification can.

This sounds like something straight out of Futurama

It’s a famous so-called “greentext”:

https://imgur.com/dgGvgKF

I honestly will not be surprised when this comment gets turned into a start-up that gets funded...

either this or the other obvious dystopian application, monitoring employees attention in meetings.

We are getting to the point where we can infer pulse rate from sufficiently good video [1]. Same for breathing. Eye tracking is well studied. So just combine all that into a single device, an AttentionScanner™ for your meeting room. This device could mark infractions to help in the yearly performance review, or help employees stay alert directly by delivering small electroshocks via their smart bracelet [2]. Contact our sales department now (/s)

1: https://spectrum.ieee.org/smartphone-camera-senses-patients-...

2: https://pavlok.com/

I would be so screwed. They might as well start applying the electric shocks.

So would I. My heart rate rarely goes above 60 when sitting.

You Kinky.

Listen to joona linna series by Lars Kepler and see your wristband explode. Same for keeper of lost causes department Q.

How about biofeedback for developing (and training) connection between people? I'd give that a try for sure.

That's black mirror shit up there