Speaking of Looking (or Hearing) Towards the Future

Tyler Cowen, one of the greatest bloggers in the sphere, posted this:

Such a safeguard could one day be commonplace, if a new biometric technique designed to identify the person on the other end of a phone line proves successful. The concept relies on the fact that the ear not only senses sound but also makes noises of its own, albeit at a level only detectable by supersensitive microphones.

If those noises prove unique to each individual, it could boost the security of call-centre and telephone-banking transactions and reduce the need for people to remember numerous identification codes. Stolen cellphones could also be rendered useless by programming them to disable themselves if they detect that the user of the phone is not the legitimate owner.

This is more like science leading change. That's fine and dandy but it isn't worth a damn if we aren't leading change as well.