This is a bit freaky. They attached powerful magnets to this guy's head and targeted them to affect the speech center of his brain. Pretty freaky.

Here's the article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... ain216.xml

And a freakish video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 1556691972

That's got to spell brain damage, lol.

I can't help thinking they can shut down any other part of the brain or even whole brain with this.

At first, when I read the title to this all this time ago, I thought it meant turning of your ability to speak TO the magnets.

I'm a dick.

Lol.

lol. Well, an interesting interpretation at least. :p

And yes, I'm sure that, with time and experimentation, this could be turned into something to make people thing whatever you want them to think. I doubt our technology is quite to that point yet, though. Besides, why bother? Most people are robots anyway.

Exactly. It makes much more sense to give people an illusion to believe in (illusion of democracy, freedom, whatever) and then control them from behind the scenes, than to actually mind control them with technical means. The latter gives them a common -and recognizable- enemy to unite against. Not good.

Besides, do you know how easy it is to plant ideas in people's heads? You can do a simple experiment: ask a person for, say, their social security code (4 numbers right?) and then ask them, directly after that, how many dentists he or she thinks work in New York city. The number will almost always be extremely similar to the 4-digit code they just gave.

Silly example, but you get the idea. It's a mental technique people use to make quickfire decisions assumptions. The previous number (which they know) was still in their head so they reach back for it to make a guesstimation on the second.

funny. I may have to try it. Unfortunately, social security numbers are 9 digits long. Though the last 4 digits are used for verification sometimes.

Heh, k. That's probably what the guy meant with the number then. Regardless, it can be any number. Like a zip code.