I wonder if you heard about Audeo: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/audeo1.htm
This is new way for disabled people to operate tool using brain impulses to the throat:
The Audeo is based on the idea that neurological signals sent from the brain to the throat area to initiate speech still get there even if the spinal cord is damaged or the motor neurons and muscles in the throat no longer work properly. Thus, even if you can't form understandable words, neurological signals that represent the intended speech exist. This is known as subvocal speech. Everyone performs subvocal speech -- if you think a word or sentence without saying it out loud, your brain still sends the signals to your mouth and throat.

It gives enormous possibilities for disabled, but also can be ultimate tool for interrogation. If it can be done remotely you can achieve ultimate surveillance tool...
Now the question is - would it create New World Order with minds controlling reality, or rather new totalitarian thought controlling system.

I am quite pessimistic - I come from communist country where communists surveilled everything and everyone. I don't rreally believe they now do not while you don't have to hack voice message box - you just need to know right person in telekom to get converstations of person you are interested in.

So... the science for progress of... what?

Well, you're gonna have to wait until someone tries to remotely record these tiny signals and decode them as these guys are doing, before jumping into any surveillance theory.

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Well, you're gonna have to wait until someone tries to remotely record these tiny signals and decode them as these guys are doing, before jumping into any surveillance theory.

I think it is not science-fiction now.
Just political fiction.