Current systems emphasize sight and sound, with some progress in haptics. Smell remains largely absent, despite its unusually strong connection to memory and emotion.
Someone did research, a few 2+ decades ago, which did ultrasounds on rodents, & then checked to see if any harm was done to the cells in their guts…
Cell-death was happening in their guts, at a too-high rate, as a result of the ultrasounds.
As any idiot can understand, if that’s a normal effect of ultrasounds, that there’s no visible damage, but that the cell-death-rate is measurably-increased, then doing that on not-yet-born lives may provide useful information, while damaging those lives.
& the same with turning the tech into a means of gaming.
( actually, typing this in … I wonder what the correlation is between ultrasound & autism, since autism is definitely a kind of brain-damage, as my life has proven … is there any population, anywhere, which doesn’t get ultrasounded, & do they have a statistically-significantly lower autism-rate? )
The habit of presuming things, like food-industry chemicals, or ultrasounds, or whatever, to be safe, instead of actually measuring isn’t competent, or evidence-based-medicine/science: it is … profitable self-delusion.
Someone did research, a few 2+ decades ago, which did ultrasounds on rodents, & then checked to see if any harm was done to the cells in their guts…
Cell-death was happening in their guts, at a too-high rate, as a result of the ultrasounds.
As any idiot can understand, if that’s a normal effect of ultrasounds, that there’s no visible damage, but that the cell-death-rate is measurably-increased, then doing that on not-yet-born lives may provide useful information, while damaging those lives.
& the same with turning the tech into a means of gaming.
( actually, typing this in … I wonder what the correlation is between ultrasound & autism, since autism is definitely a kind of brain-damage, as my life has proven … is there any population, anywhere, which doesn’t get ultrasounded, & do they have a statistically-significantly lower autism-rate? )
The habit of presuming things, like food-industry chemicals, or ultrasounds, or whatever, to be safe, instead of actually measuring isn’t competent, or evidence-based-medicine/science: it is … profitable self-delusion.
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Ah, I was wondering if crazy people like that lady on the season 2 finale of The Pitt were real, now I know.