A more nuanced version might allow users to selectively mute protests for instance, or poor people, or entire cities and communities using geo-location.
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".
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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.