Episode 160: Are These Headphones Controlling Your Mind?

In Episode 160 we talk about how technology is measuring your brainwaves and surveilling your thoughts more and more, and how that could be an attempt to control you.

They say these devices “enhance” our lives, but they are measuring our emotional responses and anticipating our preferences. Is that shaping the media we consume?

From smart earbuds and biometric feedback to the future possibility of brain-computer interfaces, we examine whether these technologies could move from convenience to control.

We discuss the slippery slope from wireless headphones to brain chips, expanding the Internet of Things to humans, mass surveillance, algorithmic controls, and the trend toward turning us into cyborgs.

If they probe into what we feel so deeply, could they be trying to erase our ability to feel at all?

And if so, could the 4th Amendment become impossible to protect?