The Prison of the Future - Cognify

[wjfox]

[Powers]

Nice models.

[Time_Traveller]

This reminds me off the Star Trek: Voyager episode Ex Post Facto where Lt. Paris was planted with the victims memory and had to live out every 14 hours, the minutes before the victim's death. Yet, it does make sense to go along these lines and be in "prison" for a few minutes then go back into society and put the money to something more useful and productive.

[erowind]

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[Cyber_Rebel]

I don't know, I could see Norway or some similar country handling something like this as the logical conclusion to their rehabilitation methods. Not everyone has the draconian measures of the United States & friends, after all. Even then, it depends on if one thinks this is more humane than what we have currently. Should what's quite literally the plot of Total Recall be an instruction manual?

I will admit I do much like the idea of making a violent offender experience empathy from another person's shoes.

Sure maybe people don't have empathy with the mass shooter who gets subjected to such a system but what happens when people are coerced into something like this for petty shoplifting or going to a protest?

More making that mass shooter have empathy for their actions, and reasoning as to why such is wrong. I also wonder how people themselves would react towards the "rehabilitated." Would they treat them fairly due to their implanted memories, or consistently remind them of their crimes, and view this as a light sentencing compared to full incarceration? I can see this being interpreted as brainwashing or misused as such quite easily as you've pointed out, really depends on the case or culture.

Also don't want illegal Cognify labs set up where people are kidnapped and forced to have implanted memories of their captors and the like. Literally reads like a Cyberpunk script.

[Vakanai]

This is a future I hope never comes to pass. It's dystopian in the extreme, and ripe for abuse. Imagine if the "criminals" who have their memories altered are only guilty of such "crimes" as speaking out against a truly corrupt and tyrannical regime?