Excerpt from chapter three:
Max had taken the electrical vibrational energy of the human mind and
body and found new ways to interpret and interrelate it. Most of the current
state of the art in biofeedback consisted mainly in what amounted to recording
and retransmission of information without much processing of it. Max had
taken bold steps in the area of cross-referencing biofeedback signals
to one another, and establishing correlations between various body signals.
In one of Max's groundbreaking papers, which was backed up by hard empirical
data, he clearly proved that an individual's emotional response profile
could be mapped and stored, and responses could be predicted once the
profile had been mapped. He had several patents on the technology, and
had had several offers from the government to buy the patent rights. They
were interested in the obvious applications of lie detection and interrogation.
So far, Max had resisted all offers, preferring to keep the technology
rights for when he started his own company after college.
Another area of expertise for Max was the integration of human nervous
system signals and computer peripherals. Max had figured out a way to
read the fluctuations in the galvanic skin resistance and electromagnetic
fields of a person, to characterize different responses, store them in
a database, and then be able to recall them. He had a device which looked
like an ordinary computer mouse, which you could hold in your hand, and
then think a thought, or feel an emotion, then record that thought or
emotion into the computer's database. Then you could assign a word or
command to represent that thought or emotion in the database. This information
could then be used to perform virtually any programmed task on demand
using thought only. Max called the technology "mind-comp" for
short.
In other words, this technology essentially allowed direct communication
of thoughts and feelings to the computer, through this special "mouse".
A thought or feeling, including the thought of a particular word, had
an electromagnetic "signature" associated with it, and unique
to it. This signature was produced by the body and read at the hand by
the special mouse. It could then be stored for reference in a database.
Then the program could associate an action, such as opening a file or
going to a particular website, with this stored pattern. In this way direct
control over the computer was possible, eliminating the need for pointing
and clicking, for keyboards, microphones, or any other any peripheral
equipment used to communicate information or commands to a computer from
the user.
