O'Grady, Jane. "Can a Machine Change Your Mind?" OPEN DEMOCRACY May 25, 2009.

"Can a machine read your mind?" – the title of a recent (February 2009) article in the Times -- is meant to be sensational but is similar to hundreds of other articles appearing with increasing frequency, and merely repeating a story that has been familiar for the last 50 years. ‘It’s just a matter of time’ is the assumption behind such articles – just a matter of time before the gap between physical brain-stuff and consciousness is bridged. The Times article plays up the social interest angle of its story by describing experiments in which people’s brain activity is taken as proof of their guilt or innocence of crimes, or in which a computer ‘could tell with 78 per cent accuracy’ which of a number of drawings shown to volunteers was the one they were concentrating on. . . . Read the rest here: http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/can-a-machine-change-your-mind.