A sound only I can hear? This could be used to drive someone crazy, commit suicide or some other horrible task - phishing God.
Go on, I'm listening.
-- The Pentagon
New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People
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#53Imagine the scary future of retargeting. - Doctor, I hear voices in my head - Don't worry, it's just ads
I wonder if you could, with the right combination of technologies, induce schizophrenia in a subject. Of course since I am in Europe my wondering will not be turned into a DARPA grant.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of that black mirror episode where you had to pay to mute commercials.
That’s not Black Mirror, that’s Tuesday. Meet Google Contributor: https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-go...
And apps. I hate flashing ads, I always pay the extra to be left alone. But I wonder, how many have fake, extra annoying ads? It's almost like extortion.
But as technology progresses, I can see a future where AI and facial recognition and this targeted sound will torment every person, everywhere they go. The more recent Time Machine movie showed a bit of this.
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#55Two big caveats with this tech (from the paper):
- it's really silent. They claim that the signal is audible, but under pretty much ideal conditions.
- creating arbitrary sound with this approach is hard. Each laser sweep generates a sharp wavefront that is audible, but that only eorks ehen the sweep is at the speed of sound. This limits the frequency at which you can emit those pulses and their shape is fixed, too. The only really changeable property is amplitude.
Not sure if this can be turned into a reasonably high quality source.
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#56Imagine the scary future of retargeting. - Doctor, I hear voices in my head - Don't worry, it's just ads
- Google, I hear voices in my head
- Don't worry, it's just ads.
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#57This would be great for telling that idiot driving five under in the left lane to move over, except for cases where I am that idiot. Then it would feel less great.
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#58Reminds met of the book series Daemon by Daniel Suarez [0], only there they use nonlinear acoustics to get this effect (if I remember correctly). Nice books, nice ideas by the way. Edit: They call it Hypersonic Sound System, not nonlinear acoustics, see [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series) [1] http://daniel-suarez.com/daemontech.html
Really great, underrated series. The book was also very prescient in predicting rise of a distributed digital currency, especially given that it was published before Satoshi's Bitcoin paper was published.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those depressing sentiments reflect an unfortunate reality of our time. The world wasn't always bloated with spammy advertising, and I'm hopeful that fad will eventually give way to more human-friendly business models. Yes, any new technology comes with potential for abuse. But I'm still excited that maybe one day this tech could be miniaturized enough (or deployed responsibly) to give me wireless virtual earbuds wit…
A consumer always pays, whether by paying or looking at advertisements. But the modern world offers nice alternatives now. I can watch movies and episodes without ads (thanks to Netflix), and can listen to all the songs in the world without ads (thanks to Spotify). Because I pay instead of watching ads. A lot of platforms and products offer the choice between looking at ads or letting you pay. But of course, everyone…
At one point the TV was without ads too!
My point: a netflix with ads will be more profitable than one without. However they cannot get away with that right now, competition, etc. Maybe never, but there's a reason ads came around, even for people who paid for television.
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#60Was this used on US diplomats in Havana?
No, that was probably just crickets: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/acs1zv/the_sound... Thread includes sound samples.
That's an hypotesis just as many others.
Investigators and medics who visited the patients say they don't know.
Source : yesterday's arstechnica's article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/canada-halves-diplom...