Man on the Edge: Mind Reading a Good Idea?

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New technology could soon mean that there’s nothing in your head that other people couldn’t know about.  

Call it “technological telepathy.”  a team of neuroscientists claims to have succeeded in sending the thoughts of one person to another person 5,000 miles away.  They were just one word thoughts, but still!  

The process is too complicated to explain, but involved some sensors on the heads of both participants, the Internet, and a kind of Morse code.  The short and sweet is: we’ve sent a message in brain waves from one person to another.

Which means it could just be a matter of time before the process is refined, and we’re all reading each other’s thoughts.  It would be one thing for you to read other people’s minds, but with this technology, they could read yours, too.

And since we can’t read minds, we hit the streets a little earlier to find out if you think that’s such a good idea…