Re: Living in the future (and probably not liking it)

"William December Starr" <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:ftkst6$5u3$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23926278>
>
>   New anti-terror weapon: Hand-held lie detector
>   U.S. troops in Afghanistan first to get new device; `red'
>   means you're lying
>
>   The Pentagon will issue hand-held lie detectors this month to
>   U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, pu****ng to the battlefront a
>   century-old debate over the accuracy of the polygraph.
>
>   The Defense Department says the ****table device isn't perfect,
>   but is accurate enough to save American lives by screening
>   local police officers, interpreters and allied forces for
>   access to U.S. military bases, and by helping narrow the list
>   of suspects after a roadside bombing.
>
> (Not that anybody who was just near a roadside bombing is going to be
> stressed out of their minds or anything...)
>
> ObSF: Was this sort of thing 'predicted' in any stories, particularly
> in the field of mil-sf?
>

Judge Dredd carried the "Birdie" hand held lie detector (except when the 
plot required him not to)
Ian