According to MIT, there now exists technology that can beam a voice right into your head from a distance. In a paper published on Friday, 4/14/2023, in the journal Optics Letters, the MIT team describes how it developed two different methods to transmit tones, music, and recorded speech via a laser. Both teqniques take advantage of something called the photoacoustic effect, which is the formation of sound waves as the result of a material absorbing light.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Of course, they'll only use their powers for good. Don't worry though. According to MIT, this technology will only be used to help humanity. Yep. They believe further research will allow them to scale up their transmission distance, which could make the technique useful in dangerous situations, such as during a mass shooting--authorities could beam instructions directly to individuals without anyone else hearing them.  "We hope that this will eventually become a commercial technology," researcher Ryan M. Sullenberger said.  "There are a lot of exciting possibilities, and we want to develop the communication technology in ways that are useful."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Think about it--susceptible people could literally be convinced they were hearing the voice of God. Talk about someone getting in your head. Now someone with the right technology could talk to you secretly via lasers into your head in a way that only you could hear while you are out in public?  Ladies and gentlemen, we've crossed the Rubicon. Those in charge have committed so fully to a dystopian future that I can't imagine any way our society could turn back unless an event occurred that took us backward for centuries. Sometimes I wonder if that would be as bad a thing as people think. Is it possible that turning back the clock on "progress" is the only way any modicum of freedom survives?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 DAISY LUTHER -  Her websites are;  The Organic Prepper and PreppersDailyNews.com. She is the author of 4 books and runs a small digital publishing company.