This dream prompted some thoughts, mostly concerned with WHY that man might be so dangerous. I was talking to my mom about the dream as i so often do, and she said 'man..wouldn't it be great if there was some device that could render the man deaf and blind so that in the event he DID escape, he wouldn't know what to do in order to get away?'. That statement lead me to other thoughts about such kind of technology. I began to remember seeing this documentary on the Discovery Channel about how in the future people are going to have computer chips implanted somewhere in the body that will hold all of their medical information. One family already has this kind of chip, as do animals that go through a humane society shelter. So my question is...what if in the future this type of chip was legally mandated? What if every newborn child and family had to be implanted with a medical chip by the government? What types of control could the government have upon the implementation of this particular type of device? What consequences would it cause? These questions led me to a further thought--could these chips be one day used as a new form of terrorism? And it hit me.. that type of control would be the worse type of situation to be in. To crash a plane into a building, or blow up religious sites is one thing..but to actually control people from both a physiological and mental level?--that's real disaster. I know personally, some of the times i am the most scared is when i feel like i have no control over my body, or what can happen to me--ex: I hate flying in planes because i can't control what the plane does while it's in the air..should it decide to malfunction and drop out of the sky, it would take me with it, and there's absolutely nothing i would be able to do except pray. I also am afraid of doing things like taking drugs/consuming too much alcohol because i can't stand the idea that i wouldn't have control over my own body and thoughts. My actions would be left to the power of whatever i decided to consume.
So basically my idea for a story would involve a situation where a person gained the ability to control all of these medical chips and became a WORLD terrorist. This person or group could threaten whole nations by saying 'if you don't give us____, we will render all of your citizens deaf/blind/mute". This would cause MASS panic and chaos. It could even lead to the end of civil order and whole governments. The blind can't lead the blind, and the deaf only have so much control either, furthermore, if people cannot talk, communication dies; communication is the foundation of modern civilization. I feel that people would literally have to let go of their differences and band together to help eachother regardless of whatever induced disabilities they have in order to eventually stop the terrorists. From a sociological standpoint however, would a catestrophic event such as this be what it would take to stop prejudice, racism and hate?...the world may never know...hopefully.
