Mind-reading systems could change air security | Info World

One system being studied by Homeland Security is called the Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST, and works like a souped-up polygraph. It would subject people pulled aside for additional screening to a battery of tests, including scans of ... Scrutinizing 80-year-old grandmothers or students because they might be carrying school scissors can defy common sense, Baum said. “We need to use the human brain â€" which is the best technology of them all,” he said. ...