Period 6-Group 7-Post 2 (The Practical Side of Invisibility)

          In a world where becoming invisible is a rapidly approaching prospect, we must first face the consequences and struggles that will come along with it. Firstly, we must look at availability, application, and distribution among civilians, military, and covert agencies. Depending on the relative availability of this new and rather precarious technology, the entire legal system could be in for an overhaul. Imagine, criminals that can commit crimes without ever leaving visible evidence that they were there at the time of the incident. A bank heist, but by who? True there may have been a finger print on the display case, but did the infrared sensors detect an intruder? The answer, frighteningly, is no. In a society where this technology is made readily available to the public, crime will change dramatically and violently in nature. In the military, this equipment will be a veritable godsend, a goldmine that allows troops to hide in plain sight. This can and will revolutionize warfare, transforming it into who can spot who first. This is disastrous, what will end up happening is soldiers will blindly fire off into the empty air trying to spray down their enemies while the opponent simply lies in the dust, invisible. Battles will become massacres and until both sides develop the ability to bypass the other's "camoflauge" who wins and who loses will be determined by their visual prowess. In the covert field, government agencies will be able to quietly and quite literally, under the radar, conduct operations in potentially more dangerous locations. For instance, when a CIA agent had to pick up a suitcase filled with Czechian state secrets, it would be dropped in a corn field 100 miles away from everyone and everything. With invisibility as an option, it would be simple for a plain-clothed agent to drop off a shielded package in broad daylight in a place such as a mall. However, as the covert actions begin to enter into the outer world, civilians are placed more and more into harms way. In general, the development of this technology, the invisibility cloak, will be very volatile from the offset. It will gradually become integrated into a modern society that understands the proper functionality of such a tool, but until that time, Pandora's box swings open wide and the world will suffer.

-Gabe Trotz