Utopian Ordeal

In this story of the near future, Professor David Cunningham invents a device called the Cranial Tap, combining technologies available today. With some simple electronics and a complex computer program he enables the speechless to talk. The initial application enters society in use for dogs – causing a fun romp.

But with governmental hands gaining control of human use the device becomes a flawless lie detector, and even worse, a thought sensor. Cunningham finds the end result to be far from his intent, with society as we know it undergoing drastic changes. Some are for the better and some not. He eventually dies a lonely death in isolation, wrought with sorrow.