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Thursday Feb 16, 2006
Sonic teenage deterrent
The Daily Telegraph writes about a new technology designed to keep teenagers away: a gadget emitting an ultra high-pitched noise heard only by those of us who haven't started losing our hearing due to old age, which means 90% of people under 20. Nicknamed the Mosquito, the Sonic Teenage Deterrent (I haven't figured out whether that's copyrighted yet) is allegedly supported by police, local authorities and various businesses alarmed by supposed loiterers.
This is almost funny. But the implications seem quite frightening, and while I've never owned or managed a shopfront business or walked a police beat, it does seem to me another way of demonising young people and an attempt to sanitise our streets.
Posted by Kirsten Olson ( 1:14 PM ) Link to this post Comments[1]
Much more civilised.
Posted by Tom Green on February 22, 2006 at 12:53 PM GMT+00:00 #