That reminds me of of a Max Headroom (old tv show) episode where they downloaded people dreams for entertainment. Matt Frewer's character I think described it as "mind rape". If something can be abused, it will be.
Jess, there has actualy been extensive research into the data interpretation of brain waves. It seems they still have alot of noise to filter out, but it's a step in the right direction towards being able to build artificial eyes for blind people.
That's a good point, ethnic background would make a difference as far as complextion goes. I wonder if artificial light has skewed our perception of how we see eachother, but it is interesting about how for all these years we have associated blue with boys and pink with girls. Maybe all these years we had it wrong... or did we?