The First Amendment is meant to protect freedom of speech, but a new device could thwart it — not through censorship but by affecting the brain’s cognitive processes. In George Orwell’s seminal novel 1984, the Ministry of Truth controls news, entertainment and information, while the Ministry of Love is there to monitor, arrest and convert dissidents, real or imagined. However, even Orwell and his fictional ministries could not have imagined a potentially more sinister device — the SpeechJammer gun invented by two Japanese researchers.
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SpeechJammer: Big Brother Is Shushing You
Posted by: Peter Suciu March 2, 2012 03:02 PMThe First Amendment is meant to protect freedom of speech, but a new device could thwart it — not through censorship but by affecting the brain’s cognitive processes. In George Orwell’s seminal novel 1984, the Ministry of Truth controls news, entertainment and information, while the Ministry of Love is there to monitor, arrest and convert dissidents, real or imagined. However, even Orwell and his fictional ministries could not have imagined a potentially more sinister device — the SpeechJammer gun invented by two Japanese researchers.