Let’s take another look into the future. June 5th, 2010. Crime has been eradicated. The invention of the picot-polygraph nipped it right in the bud. There were reservations about violations of basic human rights, of course, because the method is intrusive as hell. Never mind the head shaving and the sedation and or strapping down, never mind the needles piercing your skull or the chemicals you are fed, the idea that someone can actually look right inside your mind and SEE what you are thinking is a scary, scary thought.
However, police departments around the world got around that for years by either deception (routine medical test, we do this all the time or routine polygraph, with the detectives actually watching the screen from a remote location) or by not being in a country where human rights count for much in the first place. The results were so staggering that it soon became accepted.
Pickpockets were given the exam and not only were their mentors, accomplices and fences immediately identified, but police also learned about every illegal thing all of their relatives and friends had ever done. Child molesters were administered the tests and the molesters who molested them, years ago, were finally caught. A whole bunch of 80 year old men were sent to jail.
The flood of new cases meant that the police couldn’t possibly enforce the anti-marijuana laws any more.
People became wary about committing any crime at all, for fear of simple embarrassing incidents coming to light.
Some people began to view it as a prerequisite for dating or marriage and some employers began insisting on it.
Primitive versions of this already exist. They can actually film your thoughts and dreams. We did a piece on it in Watson’s World News about 6 months ago.
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