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🗓️ 14 March 2025
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Brace Yourself for the Decoding of Private Thoughts by Consumer Gadgets - Everyday devices like headphones and watches could soon interpret your brain activity and inner experiences. Nita A. Farahany, author of "The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology," unveils the remarkable potential and alarming risks of this emerging neurotechnology. Get ready to rethink assumptions!
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0:00.0 | This is like all of the sci-fi kind of scenarios that I've played out are about to come true. |
0:06.5 | Today we're joined by Nita Farhani, a world-renowned scholar at the forefront of exploring how cutting-edge |
0:12.8 | neurotechnology is reshaping our brains, our minds, our laws, and our lives. |
0:18.5 | From her work as a distinguished professor at Duke University to her |
0:22.3 | groundbreaking book, The Battle for Your Brain, she's tackling the big questions about how |
0:27.5 | emerging brain technologies are influencing not just our mental health, but our fundamental |
0:33.2 | freedoms. This is a conversation you don't want to miss. We haven't hit a like button, but our brain |
0:39.3 | lights up like a like button when we see something. And for companies and employers and governments |
0:45.4 | to have access to that information and the closed loop environment that has been created, |
0:50.4 | where not only do they have access to that information, but they can use it to shape the |
0:53.6 | environment that we're interacting with. |
0:56.2 | It's exciting and terrifying simultaneously, you know. |
0:59.8 | It's not hard to start to see how this becomes dystopium pretty quickly if there aren't any |
1:04.8 | limitations on the kinds of data each of these different entities can have access to. |
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