Howard's son Devon
chose to sit in the backseat
as if his Father was a chauffeur
Devon was 15 and "too cool "to take a yellow bus and too embarrassed to ride up front for his morning "drop off"
From day one Devon had established a rule of "no talking!" during the ride ,
which made Howard rather relieved for on the rare occasion Devon did speak, all Howard would hear was how much California sucked,how all his friends were back in Boston,and "How dare you ask how I am when you 're responsible for moving to this shithole desert town!".
so when Devon suddenly said ,"Hey Dad,,," out of nowhere
Howard almost veered off the road .
" Hey Dad,don't you think it's sick to monitor another person's mind ,I mean that only a very sick sick person would do that for a living? Sick with a capital "K" not S-I C sick
"We don't call it monitoring ,we call it neural market analysis and the Immersive Reality is experimental and a way to retrain the prison population in a cost effective way Immersive Reality makes "bad people" good..like television...like television used to be and will be again.."
"it's sick," his son said,"it's human enslavement and I heard Dome sold,like it's mini inserts to like a hate group in West Virginia."
" That's not true"Howard explained,not really know for sure if it was true or untrue,For the "no talking" rule applied not only in the company car but at the company physical plant and office's as well
"I heard they use Immersive Technology to drive people crazy"Devon hissed
"We're also are developing it for gaming and all sorts of things"Howard explained
"it's unatural fucking with someone's head like that ,deciding what they see and hear ,it's disgusting,it's inhuman ,Immersive Reality is like owning someone's brain..."Devon trailed off ,texting his Boston friends
"I suppose on one level we're all immersed in someone else's reality...and all owned by someone.be it an employer,a spouse,a family
and our 5 senses already to a great extent only perceived
what other people in power positions decided we should see, hear, taste ,smell
"Howard Levitt began explaining ,in a way glad his son showed some interest in his work at Dome and an interest in Neuro Ethics,when he noticed through the rear view mirror that Devon had popped in his ear buds
Howard supposed he sounded too "Jewie "in his explanation
That was the new word his Devon ,a Jew, had begun using ,a word he said the kids used at school meaning boring or "one who lectures or judges or "talks all intellectual and shit" Devon had explained
An addendum Howard supposed to , using the word" gay" as an adjective for something intrinsically bad or "uncool"
Lately whenever Howard or his wife tried to parent Devon or make salient points about what was right or what was wrong,Devon would tell them " how Jewie "they sounded
.Lately Howard had begun despising his own thoughts which may have been a side effect of listening to so many other 's interior monologues at work .Howard worked at DomeTrugenic's marketing division .Studying the neural readings of a "tagged" cross section" of the population ,they were commissioned by a new sports drink company to gage human response to things like color and sound ,the neurals were measured to not not only understand how the mind works but how consumer selections were made based on cues and brand recognition.He and a thousand or so other neuralists spent their days sifting through encoded collected one way interfaced neural data.The cross section was not informed of the Dome Mini Nano floating through their blood systems as this would have made their readings tainted and thus useless for this particular study of brand loyalty and marketing resolution via remote access psychotronic technology.*
Watching Devon move his head up and down to whatever private beat he was hearing in his head Howard castigated himself for "being Jewie "when his interior monologue began "now Devon ,isn't that ear bud really somewhat like immesive technology,someone else's message directed at one for your 5 senses...""but than again Howard thought one could remove the ear bud from one's ear,not so with with Dome Immersive...or Dome Impart Inserts
Howard had gotten into the habit of listening to his own thoughts,his own" self referentials" as he would one of his " cross population" marketing subjects,for their was an awful lot of useless every day thinking between color responsives and "consumer intents" which "kept the lights on" for Project "King Creole"..in some of these neuralities Howard .couldn't help but see himself and what Devon referred to as his "Jewy-ness".This " Jewy-ness" that seemed to be getting him "left behind" not only in his relations with his son but at work as well
*Brain Scan Knows Who You're Thinking About
For the first time, scientists can scan a person’s brain and deduce whom a person is thinking of. With further research, such a technique could help diagnose and treat autism and other social interaction disorders.
Cognitive neuroscientist Nathan Spreng and his colleagues from Cornell University carried out the research
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