It sounds like a cliché, but it’s often true. Something happens on TV or in a book or movie, and next thing you know, it’s being done in real life.
Sometimes this is a bad thing. A crime or other bad deed forms the plot of a TV show, and in no time “copycat” perpetrators are making the news.
But it’s not always a bad thing. Sometimes a screenwriter or other creative type will think of something that a scientific type hadn’t thought of, or had assumed was impossible. The creative type perhaps didn’t pause to think it might not be possible, or figured it would be believable enough for entertainment purposes.
Sooner or later, someone is asking, Hey, why not? Someone else responds, Indeed, why not? So some creative thinkers get together with some scientific thinkers and they create some great new thing.
Wouldn’t the thought-processing external voice box I talked about in my last post (like the ones in the movie Up) be a great invention to develop? People with speech problems, people who have trouble verbalizing their feelings, people taking a lie detector test…I see lots of applications for such a device. Yes, maybe even pets.
Anybody out there want to tackle this?