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This mute button for real life could have some very dark consequences
Here, an 'active listening system' developed by Doppler Labs, will allow users to filter out certain sounds around them, and having amassed over $400,000 in funding on Kickstarter when it only sought $250,000, will almost certainly be with us by December 2015.
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That made me laugh. How would a cell phone decide on which people in a crowd were poor, so it may only mute those people? This is a silly article and I feel slightly dumber for reading it. "jeeves! set my sound-a-tron to people who only make more than a million per year. Net, not Gross. No need to sully myself with that new money crowd".
15 cent ear plugs do the same job without the society-destroying implications.