In an article for Activist Post titled “7 Future Methods of Mind Control,”
Nicholas West explored some of the possible ways we might be manipulated in the future, by a small and elite group of people, most likely using the technology
of tomorrow to coerce, control and contain.
West writes, “The mind control of the future goes straight into direct
programming of the digital mind.” The seven methods West warns us about are:
1. Surveillance and gadgets: West sees both surveillance and the obsession
with gadgetry a means by which of controlling the masses, pointing to
television and video games as having massive impact on how we view our
world. He points to the Internet, computers, phones, tablets, and more as
the tools of direct manipulation of our lives. Mind/computer interfacing is
already happening now.
2. Mind-controlled robots and drones: The merging of man and machine,
as evident by brain mapping research. Are there possibly thoughtcontrolled drones in our future?
3. Magnetic manipulation: See Chapter 8 for the many means by which our
environment is effecting and influencing our thoughts, actions, and
behaviors.
4. Implants and ingestibles: Will we be controlled via implants and chips
that enter the human body through our food, medicines, and other means?
5. Genetic and neuro-engineering: A quote by MIT neuro-engineer Ed
Boyden sums it up: “If we take seriously the idea that our minds are
implemented in the circuits of our brains, then it becomes a top priority to
understand how to engineer brains for the better.” Maybe also for the
worse?
6. Neuroscience: The human brain is the final frontier—and controlling it is
the Holy Grail of research. Unfortunately, this can be used for evil as well
as good.
7. Direct upload/hack: Brain hacking is no longer the stuff of science fiction
novels, as we become the software-based humans that Ray Kurzweil,
author of The Singularity Is Near and current director of engineering at
Google, warned us about. “Humans will develop the means to instantly
create new portions of ourselves, either biological or nonbiological,”
Kurzweil writes in The Singularity Is Near."