Reading mind

It is the first time for me to come across the concept of mind reading. However, after reading the two articles, I become familiar with this kind of technology. Just like many other new technologies. Mind reading has both benefits and shortages. A question comes out from the articles that how should human beings predict and minimize potential unethical abuses of this new technology. There are so many ethic problems and as a researcher we must make sure that our researches are not wrongly used by people. We can ask the government to make some criteria about who can have brain mapping and who cannot; use laws to protect people’s privacy. Most importantly, discourage parents having their children being tested. This technology is just like the weapons. It can benefit human being to some degree, but it should be used under the government’s controlling. Not all of us can have this technology and not all of us can use it. Using of this technology should be in some important period and environment. Countries and government should set laws on abuse of mind reading technology. The abusing of this should be punished by government. People themselves should also realise the importance of this, they should educate their next generations and supervise each other. Human beings should realise that even though we can benefit from this new technology in some aspects, the bad situations that will return to us are more serious. If most of the people can realise this and government can give some stress on this, the abuse of the technology will not become a big problem in the future.