Systems have been developed that may usher us into the actual implementation of 1984's "thought crime" and the more recent "Minority Report" scenarios.  You may have thought that those tent-living and hand-made cabin-dwelling, heavily armed and off-the-grid "survivalists" were just plain nutball cases.  It seems just possible that they're ahead of the curve.

A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.

They have devised a system that analyses brain activity to work out a person's intentions before they have acted on them. More advanced versions may be able to read complex thoughts and even pick them up before the person is conscious of them.