Rick Potvin's answer to the "smartphone" and "tv" is the "neo-neurophone".

TV has essentially been a failure since it was invented. It's not used in school classrooms because it doesn't help anyone learn anything. Similarly, the "smartphone" has caused people to walk aimlessly around, into traffic and people, not knowing where they're going. Neither of these inventions raised conscious awareness-- although that was the implied promise. Now, here comes the N.E.O. or Neuro Electronic Optimizer otherwise known as the "neurophone".  It seems to me that this will be useful in music lesson as well as performance-- not to mention general areas of life. There is a new version about to be released after 50 years of development, the first decade of development of which I was personally aware as it happened. I'm amazed to present to you this latest incarnation of what used to be called the bone phone but which is now using ultrasonic music.... the N.E.O. neurophone.



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