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Commented on The Ultimate Tech Frontier: Your Brain
" Imagine DPRK or Da'esh making use of this?" Taking advantage of advanced neurotechnology need not be so obvious. I'm more worried* about insidious uses of neurotech in a 'who does it actually serve' sense. What am I being told...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
The Ultimate Tech Frontier: Your Brain
NE outer London in the 50's was like that too .... The trouble with the NE ( & one or two other places too ) was that there were well-documented cases of children passing 11+ & being refused entry by their parents as they didn't want their children to become "Posh", therby depriving them of a chance to escape poverty .......
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Mike Collins commented on
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Greg That happened to my mother in the 1930s, she passed the scholarship exam but her guardians wouldn't let her go....
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Dave_the_Proc commented on
The Ultimate Tech Frontier: Your Brain
It was also not uncommon for girls who passed the 11+ to be witheld from going further with their education, as (particularly in poorer families) it was considered a waste of time and money to educate a girl who was just going to be a mother and housewife....
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dsgood commented on
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It's my experience that US doctors are more willing and able to prescribe off-label medications....
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hakuna_potata commented on
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" What if you could transmit not just images, sounds, and the like, but emotions? Intellectual concepts?" My God!! It's full of Ads! yeah, back in 1986, nobody saw THAT coming, for the Internet. . ....
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