Surveillance technology is moving on into the reading

of people's thoughts, and even into the motor control...

of people.

In his book Mass Surveillance and State Control (The Total Information Awareness Project), Elliot D. Cohen describes current developments in surveillance technologies that, through use of microchips as small as a grain of sand, can provide not merely the chip implanted people's locations, but also "direct monitoring of people's mental aspects, such as thoughts, perceptions, and emotions."

These chips are reportedly so small that they could easily be implanted in people without their knowledge, for use in surveillance and control of any number of people... eventually perhaps all people.

IBM has partnered with the U.S. military's DARPA, working on ways to weaponize these devices, by means of Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI):

"Here, there are profound implications for DARPA/IBM’s cognitive computing initiative to build a 'global brain.' If sensors that monitor and control soldiers’ motor and sensory brain activities were 'plugged into' a global brain through BMI interfaces, the possibility would emerge of remotely controlling and coordinating an entire army of soldiers by networking their individual brains. … The stored data and supercomputing capabilities could then … give an army a marked, logistical advantage over a non-networked opponent. Of course, this advantage would be purchased at the expense of turning human soldiers into military robots plugged into a literal network of remotely controlled fighting machines. There would be little left that would make them distinctively human."

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This new Brain Machine Interface (BMI) technology is a crude replacement for the existing Bipartisan Mental Incapacitation (BMI), with which the corporate (R) & (D) party has reliably and regularly mentally incapacitated 99% of the active American electorate... without having needed to physically implant microchips in any of that corporate voter army's over 129 million remote-controlled biological robots.

The existing BMI provides a truly elegant "elections" management of a population. Consistent with Newton's 3rd Law, it ensures that every reaction has an equal reaction, with the liberal robots providing the stimulus for the reactionary Republican votes, and conservative robots providing the stimulus for the reactionary Democrat votes. Although the officials replaced are interchangeable parts, and there's an unchanging continuum in substantive issue policies, the BMI does pleasingly provide the appearance of "decisions" having been made by the many millions of natural persons completely corporate controlled.

Aside from this crude new BMI's obvious military utility (eliminating the serious problem the Pentagon has whenever soldiers malfunction and start thinking), presumably these less elegant unsophisticated electronic devices are required for the "global brain" project's intention to monitor the world's thinking capable populations, found in other nations... because those others aren't already so congenitally mind-machine meld interfaced with the complete corporate control of natural persons, like "normal" Americans are.