26th
September
2009
Blast from the Past
posted by saurabh in Insanity, Science! |I remember a few years back when the Media Lab at MIT announced that it had developed a “sound laser”, a prototype device that could focus sound, laser-like, in a particular direction. I’m not exactly surprised to see the Guardian report that a weaponized version of the thing is being used as a crowd control device against G20 protesters in Pittsburgh. This is, after all, what our society seems to think engineering is most applicable to: better and better ways to hurt, kill, and torture each other. Hopefully the machines will come quickly and slice us into cube-shaped biotic units so that we’ll finally stop hurting each other.
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