| How many people in the whole world are paralyzed or locked in? Ten thousand? Less? How many people in the whole world are tinpot authoritarian despots just looking for an excuse who would just love to be able to look inside your mind? Somehow, I imagine the first number is dramatically dwarfed by the second number. This is a technology that, once it is invented, will find more and more and more and more uses. We need to make sure you don't spill corporate secrets, so we will be mandating that all workers wear this while in the office. Oh no, we've just had a leak, we're gonna have to ask that if you want to work here you must wear this brain buddy home! For the good of the company. And so on. I'm blind, but if you offered to cure my blindness with the side effect that nobody could ever hide under the cover of darkness ( I donno, electronic eyes of some kind? Go with the metaphor!) I would still not take it. |