posted on October 11, 2002 10:10:00 AM new
After five years of development, a company has announced a device that can project an audio beam into your head. A concentrated laser-like sound signal will "speak" to you if you walk in the path of the beam. Walking by a coke machine could prompt you to purchase with "Hey dude, dying of thirst? Stop now and buy an ice cold soda". Any concern for political or other big brother-like messages?
posted on October 11, 2002 11:12:36 AM new
Hi stusi! I wonder if people that already hear voices will have major conflicts with the new ones? I see this being a boom for snowy & her hats.
posted on October 11, 2002 12:54:08 PM new
Reminds me forcibly of an old "B" movie starring Michael Rennie: Cyborg 2087.
In it, people of the not-so-distant future are ruled with an iron fist by the government through the use of "radio telepathy." A resistance group suborns a government cyborg (Rennie) and sends him back in time to kill the scientist who invented radio telepathy, and so free the people of the future.
A low, low budget film, but thought provoking. Life is hard. And then you die
posted on October 11, 2002 12:59:37 PM new
More likely in the near future is the use of the microchip ID implant in mass marketing. Your patterns, likes and dislikes in consumer goods is constantly being upgraded in files everywhere such businesses that make a profit in doing so. Eventually, when our government mandates that we all shall have to have an ID chip implant in us, the marketing companies will all be there to take advantage of this. Remember Bill Gates' home, where by wearing a particular device, when you walked past a particular "painting" your "likes" in art would be transmitted to the "painting" and it would change to suit your tastes? Advertising signs everywhere in the future will read your microchip implant, pull up your marketing records, and urge you to purchase and item that they think you're going to love!
posted on October 11, 2002 01:53:06 PM new
I might be worried a bit if I didn't know that Ashcroft and a whole host of selfless, freedom-loving neoconservatives are there secretly protecting us.
posted on October 11, 2002 01:53:28 PM new
My beanies might become a fashionable accent to any outfit.
Actually, I've thought of a way around this, if it is implemented. I will think in Spanish, so if I think in English, it's the machine telling me to do it. So I won't do whatever I think in English, because it would be the machine, and not me. Or just becoem a Luddite.
I foresee big problems with this one. You have the right to an informed opinion -Harlan Ellison
