Cognotechnology

Cognotechnology is the combination of biotechnology, nanotechnology and information technology for remote brain sensing or mind control. It is a term coined by American military researchers seeking a means of human mind control via nanotechnology. They are not funded specifically to do such research, but the American military establishment is very heavily funding research efforts into other areas of nanotechnology, and recognizes its usefulness in creating weapons of mass destruction. There would reasonably need to be some means of controlling at least the individuals deploying such dangerous weapons, to prevent them from using it in 'bad' ways.

Like other such ambitious schemes, e.g. mind transfer, there seems to be no clear path to such technological powers, but nonetheless that the issue is discussed by well-funded researchers in rich nations, makes it more noteworthy, especially given the (claimed) reality of human cloning, a recent American government project seeking "Total Information Awareness" (already approved in law, and effectively authorizing compiling all Internet sources for spy purposes), and the "with us or against us" rhetoric of the G. W. Bush administration. It seems clear that if "cognotechnology" were deemed a practical goal of research, it would most likely be funded.

Most who have heard of it consider it an undesirable goal, or impossible. However, it is far from an unusual suggestion in the American military establishment, that human minds can be so controlled, e.g. MKULTRA experiments with LSD in the 1960s, and the use of amphetamines for pilots today.

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Speculates that it is a successor program to MKULTRA.
Defines it as "Convergence of nanotech, biotech and IT, for remote brain sensing and mind control".
Coiner of the term nanotechnology warns that nanotechnology has extreme downsides, mentioning cognotechnology.
Story featuring one National Science Foundation researcher saying that it is where exciting discoveries are happening.