surajmal Posted March 16, 2014 Posted March 16, 2014 Prisoners 'could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours' Future biotechnology could be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1,000 year sentence, a team of scientists claim Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence, a group of scientists have claimed. Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform punishment. Dr Roache claims the prison sentence of serious criminals could be made worse by extending their lives. Speaking to Aeon magazine, Dr Roache said drugs could be developed to distort prisoners' minds into thinking time was passing more slowly. "There are a number of psychoactive drugs that distort people’s sense of time, so you could imagine developing a pill or a liquid that made someone feel like they were serving a 1,000-year sentence," she said. A second scenario would be to upload human minds to computers to speed up the rate at which the mind works, she wrote on her blog. "If the speed-up were a factor of a million, a millennium of thinking would be accomplished in eight and a half hours... Uploading the mind of a convicted criminal and running it a million times faster than normal would enable the uploaded criminal to serve a 1,000 year sentence in eight-and-a-half hours. This would, obviously, be much cheaper for the taxpayer than extending criminals’ lifespans to enable them to serve 1,000 years in real time." Thirty years in prison is currently the most severe punishment available in the UK legal system. "To me, these questions about technology are interesting because they force us to rethink the truisms we currently hold about punishment. When we ask ourselves whether it’s inhumane to inflict a certain technology on someone, we have to make sure it’s not just the unfamiliarity that spooks us," Dr Roache said. "Is it really OK to lock someone up for the best part of the only life they will ever have, or might it be more humane to tinker with their brains and set them free? When we ask that question, the goal isn’t simply to imagine a bunch of futuristic punishments – the goal is to look at today’s punishments through the lens of the future." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10697529/Prisoners-could-serve-1000-year-sentence-in-eight-hours.html
moniker Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Could have horrible side effects? Would they be able to mingle with the society after having their minds fecked up? But yeah, taxpayer's money wouldn't be used to feed them.
Tailender Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 justice system should not be used to exact revenge. it should be used to quarantine those irreconcilable with mainstream society and those prisoners who are themselves victim of circumstance should not be made to serve long, ridiculous sentences.
sachin34357 Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 america gives multiple life sentences while Britain only gives max life unto death. so how many minutes would a 50 years sentence take?
Detonator Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 i can see one positive use of this drug :giggity: I can see as well. :giggity:
hhunaeh Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Can we use this drug to learn new skills in a short period of time?
vvvslaxman Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Can 20 year old cricket career be shortened to 1 week.. say Ishant's career.
yoda Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Yes there is a real urgency to get criminals back on the street ASAP.
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