This week Adam and Faith are joined by one of the most Jolty guests yet, a fellow futurist Nita Farahany, who is the author of a new book called The Battle for Your Brain. It's quite the dystopian idea that future technology will open up the possibilities of reading and understanding what someone is thinking. But while it seems like something from a George Orwell novel, it could be here sooner than you think.
That’s why Nita has made it her mission to bring awareness to this developing field so that society may have a chance to grapple with this possibility and put laws and limits in place before it gets out of hand. What is the idea of cognitive liberty? Could this be used to prevent crime? What happens to free will? Should people be judged by their thoughts rather than their actions? We ask Nita all of this and much more on this episode of Jolty.