New Tech Poised to Change the World

Much has been discussed about the nature of plagiarism lately. The simple task of running text through one of Google's sites can find several incidences of copied or sampled works. Already, several authors have been forced to eat crow as their book deals have fallen into shambles and their future careers been made suspect. Now, it would seem, this technology is starting to troll through history as well. Soon, we can expect to see at least one major writer dethroned for lifting his/her work from someone less prominent. How this will affect the canon has yet to be seen, but things aren't looking good.

Another tech, announced just recently, trolls through old videos and reads lips of people who may or may not be on the microphone. This tech, ALR (Automatic Lip Reading), has recently been used on several old Hitler videos. This is likely to bring an entirely new focus to the window of celebrity, opening secrets that were long thought dead.

I have long suspected a technology would soon emerge that would reveal lies being told on video. Something as simple as an in-depth analysis of miniscule changes in pupil dilations would be all that would be required. Sooner or later, someone will program a technology that will read the slightest change in pupil size and surmise the probability of truth or deception. The eyes don't lie so well. It would definitely make reviewing Barbara Walter's interviews very interesting.