Full on mind reading technology will soon be as normal as a smartphone. Which will be great because it'll allow for a society where crime becomes next to impossible.

People fear this will be abused by those in power, but they forgot that in modern society lying is their single greatest power. 99% of people are not part of the lies, and only comply because they have little other choice, but if the lies at the top are exposed, that masses will no longer go along with it.

Which is why the elites fear technological progress more than anyone else. It's why in the past many powerful groups (such as kings and religions) rejected progress, because they understood it threatened their power.

Information is power, if the elites were forced to share it with the public, then the 99% would be able to dominate the information market. Or if only one person out of 100 people has a gun, then that 1 person has a lot of control over the other 99. But if everyone had a gun, then everyone would truly have an equal amount of power, and then you get true democracy.

And it's for this reason that as we are on the cusp of the Singularity (and beyond it already, but few think beyond what they can see), the risk to the 99% becomes catastrophic, as the 1% will do anything it can to maintain their grip on power.