Facebook Takes Next Steps into Mind Control
Facebook Takes Next Steps into Mind Control. Back in the 60’s, the CIA ran a covert program called ‘MKUltra‘, which was tasked with running human experiments for the purposes of developing drugs and procedures that would “weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control”.
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction (which it incidentally has become), but this research actually took place, and had lasting impacts for various participants.
Among those experiments was one which involved brain implants, with dogs reportedly made to run and stop without verbal or physical commands, purely through these implants connected into their brains.
That’s pretty freaky, right? That’s what this latest Facebook news made me think of, with the potential implications of this area of investigation seemingly veering into very questionable, very concerning territory.
According to reports, Facebook has acquired a start-up called CTRL-Labs, a company’s which is working on software that would enable people to control a digital avatar, using only their thoughts.
As per Bloomberg:
“The closely held four-year-old startup, which has dozens of employees and has raised tens of millions in venture capital, uses a bracelet to measure neuron activity in a subject’s arm to determine movement that person is thinking about, even if they aren’t physically moving. That neuron activity is then translated into movement on a digital screen.”
Facebook is reportedly paying between $500 million and $1 billion for CTRL-Labs, which it will bring into its experimental research teams to continue its work on the next phase of digital connection. Which could be connecting Facebook directly into your brain – which doesn’t sound like a particularly great idea.
Facebook has actually been working on similar for some time. Back in 2017, at its F8 Developer conference for that year, The Social Network revealed that it had a 60 person team working on a new system which would enable users to type words on screen, simply by thinking of what they wanted to say.
