Cognitive Design

Brainwaves has a post offering an interesting hypothetical scenario where the president signs, in 2019, a Neuro Information Nondiscrimination Act (NINA) that might contain the following provisions:

“- Explicit right to cognitive liberty, brain privacy

-Bans discrimination in hiring based on neuroimaging profile

-Bans all local, state ‘drug vaccine’ programs

-Bans ‘neuroprofiling’ for travel and attendance at public events

-Subsidizes accelerated learning with neuroenablement technologies

-Legalizes use of neuroenablers

-Bans denial of health coverage based on neuroprofile

-Bans cosmetic memory erasure”

The more effective cognitive design becomes the more likely it will be regulated.

This may seem far fetched to some readers, but check out the worry stream about in implications of neuroimaging  in the recent Forbes article, Is My Mind Mine?