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Chinese schoolchildren wearing brain-activity rings

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Chinese elementary schools equipped students with metal rings that measured brain activity so teachers could see on a screen when a student's attention fell, a primitive but real form of cognitive surveillance already in use.

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“children had to wear a kind of a metal ring which at a very primitive level measures their brain activity... if you are dreaming it will immediately show as your diminished brain activity”
“a kind of a metal ring on their head which registers just the scope of their mental activity so the teacher sees on his computer screen if somebody is not following”
“All pupils have to wear a kind of a metal ring which detects their brain activity.”
52:38 Reopening Hegel-Haus2020-08-27 · 1:22:05

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Chinese elementary schools equipped students with metal rings that measured brain activity so teachers could see on a screen when a student's attention fell, a primitive but real form of cognitive surveillance already in use., illustrating technology-ai-cyberspace,Neuralink critique,surveillance
In some Chinese elementary schools children wear metal rings measuring brain activity so the teacher can see on a screen who is not paying attention, an already-realized version of mind-monitoring that Žižek treats as harbinger of the Neuralink threat., illustrating digital surveillance,wired brain,post-human unfreedom
52:38 Reopening Hegel-Haus2020-08-27 · 1:22:05
Žižek cites Chinese elementary schools where pupils wear metal rings that detect brain activity so the teacher's computer clicks when they are inattentive, a real-world instance of wired-brain social control at a primitive level., illustrating wired brain singularity,social control through neural monitoring,dangers of direct mind-reading
21:20 Hegel in a Wired Brain2020-07-28 · 38:30
In thousands of Chinese elementary schools, children are made to wear metal rings measuring brain activity so teachers can be alerted by a computer when any student's attention wanders, an elementary but real step toward wired brain surveillance., illustrating wired brain,singularity,surveillance and subjectivity
In thousands of Chinese elementary schools, pupils wear metal rings that monitor brain activity so the teacher's screen shows in real time if they are inattentive, a present-day prototype of brain-machine surveillance., illustrating brain-machine interface,surveillance capitalism,unfreedom experienced as freedom
25:39 What Does the Future Hold?2020-08-06 · 1:00:44
In some Chinese elementary schools, children wear metal rings measuring brain activity so teachers receive real-time data on who is inattentive, a real, already-deployed precursor to the wired brain., illustrating wired brain,surveillance,technology