Pentagon Preps Mind Fields

The U.S. military is working on computers that can scan your mind and adapt to what you're thinking. The idea --to grossly over-simplify-- is that people have more than one kind of working memory, and more than one kind of attention; there are separate slots in the mind for things written, things heard and things seen. By monitoring how taxed those areas of the brain are, it should be possible to change a computer's display, to compensate. If a person's getting too much visual information, send him a text alert. If that person is reading too much at once, present some of the data visually --in a chart or map.

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