Dude can you hear that? No? Something must be wrong with me.

Do you remember your mom telling you to turn down your music? Well what if you could listen to your music louder than ever, and you would be the only person that could hear it? Well I guess you are right you do have an iPod and a pair of headphones, but that is not really the same. There is this new thing that the military created that enables them to control sounds and direct it toward and individual within range. They can control is so well that not one person can hear the sound except the person that it is directed toward. So instead of getting tasered and dying like everyone else that you hear about, you can settle with just getting your ear drums blown. Sounds like a good deal right? Well, no. You see the thing here is that people who create this technology don’t just use it when the time is right. They continue to perfect it until they can use it for situations other than crowd control. Lessig even says that there are a lot of technological issues that we can not keep up with. Something like this might be used unethically. In fact further research and innovation made this product capable of reading thoughts. What if you were just walking around thinking about some new venture or product that you wanted to start, and someone just decided hey I am going to use this new technology and steal that guy’s ideas? I don’t know if your brain thinks like that, but hey I’ll know shortly right after I get my hands on this new technology. I mean listening in on phone conversations is one thing, but what the hell are you suppose to do when someone is listening to your thoughts? WTF!!! I personally believe that my thoughts are my most important property that I own. My thoughts make me who I am, and I for one do not want anyone swimming around in my head. It is like in Minority Report when Tom Cruise is walking around in the shopping mall, and all the ads are directed right at Mr. Cruise. This is similar to what would occur if this technology went public. Businesses would want to use it for marketing purposes whereas the government would want to use it for protection purposes. Businesses would be able to be more effective when marketing and advertising to consumers. They would know exactly what you liked and didn’t like because they would be in your head. This is something that makes sense, but what if people began using this technology for reasons other than marketing? Again that is why Lessig stresses the fact that technology is developing so fast, society can not keep up with it.