What do you intend to do?

[lildog]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070305/ap_on_fe_st/reading_minds_4

At a laboratory in Germany, volunteers slide into a donut-shaped MRI machine and perform simple tasks, such as deciding whether to add or subtract two numbers, or choosing which of two buttons to press.
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They have no inkling that scientists in the next room are trying to read their minds ? using a brain scan to figure out their intention before it is turned into action.

In the past, scientists had been able to detect decisions about making physical movements before those movements appeared. But researchers at Berlin's Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now, for the first time, identified people's decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity ? in this case, adding versus subtracting.

While still in its initial stages, the techniques may eventually have wide-ranging implications for everything from criminal interrogations to airline security checks.

[B]

Minority Report.

[Raineyrocks]

Minority Report.

Are you talking about that Tom Cruise movie?  I never understood that movie.

[eques]

Wear a tinfoil-lined baseball cap.

[error]

Yes, but the tinfoil actually amplifies the government mind-control rays!

[eques]

Oh noes!

I'll line it with lead, then!

And put a nice sheepskin lining over the lead.

And then a shoulder-to-neck brace to ensure I don't end up with disintegrated cervical vertebrae.

[Nicholas Gilman]

 The public generally walks around in a mindless stupor...they shouldnt
have a problem setting off too many alarm bells.  The thought police
are going high tech.

[d_goddard]

Neal Stephenson already covered this pretty well in Snow Crash.
Great book, fast read. Worth it. Then read everything else he wrote, especially The Diamond Age.

[error]

Snow Crash and The Diamond Age were very influential to me.

Reason interviewed him back in 2005; it's also an interesting read.