It's the year 2020...how's your cybersecurity?
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 08:40
in Psychology & Sociology
What if, in 2020, wearable devices did not care about how many steps you took, and instead were concerned with your real-time emotional state? With networked devices tracking hormone levels, heart rates, facial expressions, voice tone and more, the Internet could become a vast system of "emotion readers," touching the most intimate aspects of human psychology. What if these technologies allowed people's underlying mental, emotional and physical states to be tracked – and manipulated?