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Can't wait till rogue arrays of lasers start beaming advertisements directly into your ear while walking down the street.
Yep, this is going to be Altered Carbon or Ghost In The Shell type of crap. Whatever you Google for will follow you everywhere , and nag you until you buy it...
For example, sharks with giant fricking laser beams that convert shark thoughts to audible sound that gets louder based on target's voice level.
Or government, millitary, and adtech abuse.
I'm not a big regulations person but see value in them in this case.
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
If you want a sound in your year, you get a device for that. If you are a business wanting to notify people who trust you, you can give them devices or blast a speaker. This fills the use case of an actor distributing information to people who do not have enough contact or trust with that actor or who do not want the information (because they would willingly use their own device if they did). Most likely use cases: p…
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 without having to stick anything in my ear.
If you want a sound in your year, you get a device for that. If you are a business wanting to notify people who trust you, you can give them devices or blast a speaker. This fills the use case of an actor distributing information to people who do not have enough contact or trust with that actor or who do not want the information (because they would willingly use their own device if they did). Most likely use cases: p…
- Doctor, I hear voices in my head
- Don't worry, it's just ads
There are stories of people having their orthodontic braces act as a radio antenna. Only the person with the braces would hear something. This writeup is short: https://www.recordonline.com/article/20091118/Health/9111803... . There's also a (busted) Mythbusters around picking up radio signals thru fillings.
Imagine any negative or false perception can be corrected with a medical device.
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