In The Near Future Even Your Boss May Know If Your Lying

Until now, sorting the truth from deception has relied on subjective hunches about individuals’ honesty, or else the discredited measurements of old-fashioned polygraph machines. But what if there were a sleek scientific tool that could peer into the human brain and prove objectively when a person was lying? As advances in neuroscience have mapped out the brain in unprecedented detail in recent years, businesses have been clamouring to commercialise the emerging research. The newest trend is for companies to offer magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that they claim identify brain activity associated with deception. Once the technology becomes the norm, it will become cheap and then we will see small portable Lying Detection systems in workplaces and other places such as police stations, court rooms and more.