All your thoughts are belong to us

How about computers reading our thoughts ? Possibility maybe ?? Or absolute impossible nonsense? Would be interesting though wouldn't it ? I watched a program briefly on television recently about it and then today I was just doing some reading here and there about the tests and whatever else that has been done. It's all quite interesting actually but many people, (myself included) think that it could be quite far-fetched.

Now that could be the case but just imagine a future where every thought process that you ever think could be read. If we add a bit of cellphone to whichever device we would use for reading thoughts. We could have telepathy enabled by downloading the latest xyz update. Thus we wouldn't need speech anymore. That could get quite tricky when in a crowd, reading everyones thoughts. If our thoughts could be read and we could read thoughts that would mean that thoughts could be given to us too. I suppose?

Or think about this. It's a lovely autumn afternoon and you decide to do a little bit of shopping at the local supermarket. As you walk in the door all the current specials get bluetoothed directly to you. You get told information like, what items are for sale on special and at what cost. You get told which isle the item is in and if you are really lost you could program your self installed GPRS system to tell you the very co-ordinates of where the item should be and it could direct you there. "Ten steps forward then turn 30 degrees to the left, another 3 steps and jump up and down a few times.." or maybe not exactly like that but something like that. Anyways, another idea means another paragraph.

Passwords. You could enter your passwords through thoughts which then means that it would be much harder for anyone else to find out your password, unless you think your password out 'loud' to everyone, which would be rather silly. But even then, surely, through your thoughts you could be identified as you, as everyones brain is different. Or something like that. I don't know too much about the scientific details behind this whole idea but it interests me nonetheless.

Surely if our thoughts can be read that means that possibly through our brains our bodies could be regulated too? Or maybe that wasn't the right word but I mean something like 'checked or monitored' in some way. Like maybe organs could be checked and their lifespan could be recorded. Which could then mean that you could be notified when you are about to get sick. And if the lifespan of our organs are known, maybe this could then be used to estimate how many years we have left to live? Ha-ha! What then could mean that possibly one day when you are very old and ready to die in the future you'd get some kind of mail delivered to you with a sheet of your life statistics. Displaying things like 'how many seconds you've slept', 'how many times you've blinked' and etc etc.

All this actually sounds pretty strange and futuristic to me but then again the telephone or cellphone idea was probably pretty strange to someone else back in the eighteen hundreds, he just couldn't blog about it ;)

possible?