Retinal Implants Today on Mind Set Daily!

Greetings this is Mind Set Daily for Thursday, November 29 - 2012
Researchers at Second Sight, the company that created the Argus II, have altered the device for use in a novel and potentially significant way. As they report in an article published this week in Frontiers in Neuroprosthetics, they’ve connected the implant to a computer that produces digital braille patterns, allowing them to directly stream braille onto a blind patient’s retina. 

The continued development and miniaturization of optical and computer technology has allowed engineers to create devices like the Argus II: a retinal prosthesis that uses a small camera, a computer and a series of electrodes surgically implanted on a blind person’s retina to convert the world around them into electronic impulses that enter the brain.

This kind of application of a retinal implant could revolutionize reading for the blind and visually impaired. Just as traditional tactile braille opened up an entire world of written text to blind people in the early 1900s, storing books as digital braille for retinal implants could do the same for text in the 21st century.

As the technology is improved and refined, it could become cheaper and give everyday access to visual text and so much more to those without vision. Retina and bionic eye implants will aide those with disabilities when it comes to eye sight but hese kinds of technologies are always accepted by the general public as a “benefit”. When you realize this you’ll “see” that we are edging closer to a bionic society and it doesn’t begin or end with eyesight, just think about it…

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Killer Robots on Today's Mind Set Daily!

Greetings this is Mind Set Daily for Tuesday, November 20 - 2012
Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility. The Humans Right Watch Group said in a report Nov. 19 that these robots must be banned before governments start deploying them.

The report “Losing Humanity” — co-produced by Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic — also raises the alarm over the ethics of the looming technology. Calling them “killer robots,” it urges “an international treaty that would absolutely prohibit the development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons.

The problem with handing over decision-making power to even the most sophisticated robots is that there would be no clear way of making anyone answer for the mistakes. If a robot goes wrong, who’s accountable? It certainly won’t be the robot. The robot could take a bullet in its computer and go berserk. So there’s no way of really determining who’s accountable, and that’s very important for the laws of war, just think about it…

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Star Wars or Star Peace? on Today's Mind Set Daily!

Greeting this is Mind Set Daily for Thursday, November 15 - 2012
35 years after George Lucas’s Star Wars was released, there is a greater possibility of a space battle outside the realm of Hollywood. Space has become a central part of the military and defense policies in many of the world’s biggest countries.

Wars of the future are expected to involve a lot of orbiters to ensure a country’s security: satellite reconnaissance, warning, forecasting and targeting systems – objects which themselves will need to be defended and armed. So it is only a matter of time before orbital systems are developed that will be able to independently hit targets in space, in the atmosphere or on the Earth itself.

In space is one of the few areas where there are no borders. Introducing arms to space, will it upset the balance in the world? It would seem that Harrison Ford, who played Han Solo, one of the most important characters in the Star Wars films, was right when he said that the main secret of the film’s success was that it was “not about space, but about people; this is primarily a film about human relationships.”

It is up to us humans to decide whether space shall remain as a peaceful realm or whether it will become another arena for military conflict, just think about it…

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"Brain Implants" on Today's Mind Set Daily!

Greetings! This is Mind Set Daily for Monday, November 5th - 2012
Are you ready to have a microchip implanted into your brain?  That might not sound very appealing to you at this point, but this is exactly what the big pharmaceutical companies and the big technology companies have planned for our future.  They are pumping millions of dollars into researching "cutting edge" technologies that will enable implantable microchips to greatly "enhance" our health and our lives. Initially, brain implants will be marketed as "revolutionary breakthroughs" that can cure chronic diseases and that can enable the disabled to live normal lives. Just imagine the hype that will surround these implants when people discover that you can get rid of your extra weight in a matter of days or that you can download an entire college course into your memory in just a matter of hours.  The possibilities for this kind of technology are endless, and it is just a matter of time before having microchips implanted into your brain is considered to be quite common.  What was once science fiction is rapidly becoming reality, and it is going to change the world forever.

The pharmaceutical companies of the future will include a "bioelectronics" business that "treats disease through electrical signalling in the brain and elsewhere." Diseases such as diabetes and epilepsy and conditions such as obesity and depression will be will be treated "through electronic implants into the brain rather than pills or injections." These implants will send electrical signals to cells and organs that are "malfunctioning".  People will be totally "cured" without ever having to pop a pill or go under the knife.

If a brain implant could cure a disease that you have been suffering from your whole life would you take it? A lot of people are going to be faced with that kind of a decision in future years.

This kind of technology is advancing very rapidly.  In fact, some researchers have already had success treating certain diseases by implanting microchips into the brains of rats. But is it really safe to have a device implanted into your head that can "talk" directly to your brain? For example, Intel is working on sensors that will be implanted in the brain that will be able to directly control computers and cell phones. Even now, some video game makers are developing headsets that allow users to play games using their brain waves rather than a joystick or a control pad. Other companies want to make it possible to directly connect your brain to the Internet.

The possibilities are endless. But so is the potential for abuse. Implantable microchips that can "talk" directly to the brain would give a tyrannical government the ultimate form of control. If you could download thoughts and feelings directly into the brains of your citizens, you could achieve total control and never have to worry that they would turn on you. In fact, you could potentially program these chips to make your citizens feel good all the time.  You could have these chips produce a "natural high" that never ends.  That would make your citizens incredibly dependent on the chips and they would never want to give them up.

This kind of technology has the potential to be one of the greatest threats to liberty and freedom in the history of mankind. At first these implantable microchips will be sold to us as one of the greatest "breakthroughs" ever, but in the end they could end up totally enslaving us. Just think about it...

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Mind Set Daily Returns!

I'm back! Well back doing Mind Set Daily episodes that is. I am proud to announce that new episodes will begin airing next week starting November 5th on Mindset Central. I'll be back highlighting various news stories ranging in topics from weather control to big brother and all sorts of new technologies mixed in. I challenge you to listen if you haven't already as you may hear of things in these stories you never thought possible.
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The Return of Mind Set Central

If you are regular listener to Mind Set Central you may have noticed the past few weeks their haven't been any new shows posted. You may wonder why this delay? Well a few weeks back their were some technical difficulties at the main hub where all the shows are posted regularly. This has taken time and money to resolve. From what I know I should be back on air with the other hosts soon doing shows as the network is scheduled to be back on air with regular shows the week of November 5th if all goes as planned.

What can you expect? Well I have been working on some new formats for Mind Set Daily and also I plan on posting more of these daily shows more than twice per week. You can expect more new alternative music from my upcoming Mind Set Radio Hours. I also have a brand new show I'm working on that I can't disclose yet but will be available in the near future on Mind Set Central. So lots in the works and of course I'll be back on with the regular panel each Sunday for The Mind Set Podcast as well. So lots to look forward to, stay tuned to www.MindsetCentral.com

Behavior Recognition Surveillance at the RNC

Tampa police will be using behavior recognition surveillance cameras and specialized software at the Republican National Convention. A system known as “AISight” developed by BRS Labs will used to track patterns of behavior, analyze environments and the objects and people within in it.

This system will be build up a memory of these events and then compare the objects and behaviors to past memories to see if anything is out of the ordinary.

Tampa Police hopes that the system encourages protestors during the Republican National Convention to behave since they know they’re being watched and profiled.

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"TrapWire" on Today's Mind Set Daily!

Greetings! This is Mind Set Daily for Tuesday, August 14 - 2012
Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.

Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community. The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented.

According to a press release from June 6, 2012, TrapWire is “designed to provide a simple yet powerful means of collecting and recording suspicious activity reports.” A system of interconnected nodes spot anything considered suspect and then input it into the system to be "analyzed and compared with data entered from other areas within a network for the purpose of identifying patterns of behavior that are indicative of pre-attack planning.”

Since its inception, TrapWire has been implemented in most major American cities at selected high value targets and has appeared abroad as well. The iWatch monitoring system adopted by the Los Angeles Police Department works in conjunction with TrapWire, as does the District of Columbia and the "See Something, Say Something" program conducted by law enforcement in New York City, which had 500 surveillance cameras linked to the system in 2010. Private properties including Las Vegas, Nevada casinos have subscribed to the system. The State of Texas reportedly spent half a million dollars with an additional annual licensing fee of $150,000 to employ TrapWire, and the Pentagon and other military facilities have allegedly signed on as well. News of the widespread and largely secretive installation of TrapWire comes amidst a federal witch-hunt to crack down on leaks escaping Washington and at attempt to prosecute whistleblowers.

So those spooky new "circular" dark globe cameras installed in your neighborhood park, town, or city—they aren't just passively monitoring. They're plugged into Trapwire and they are potentially monitoring every single person via facial recognition. It is for our safety and if you have nothing to hide, what is the fear? Just think about it...

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