Kurt Vonnegut’s short story Harrison Bergeron begins “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.” Beautiful people are required to wear ugly masks, strong people are required to carry weights, etc. Every excellence is handicapped.
But how do you handicap intelligence? With interruptions. In Vonnegut’s story, those deemed too intelligent are required to wear a device in their ear that regularly interrupts their thoughts with a loud noise.
Now we have Facebook, Twitter and Google+. He wasn’t too far off.
Ha, I have one of those. An HTC. But you can put it on silent if you want.
You make it work for the Public Sector stamping paperwork
Go into politics. ;-)
A better way to handicap intelligence is to deny it access to information, or to only give it biased and sanitized information from a single source.
Well, it is also a tried and true torture technique, especially when someone is trying to sleep.
Sleep deprivation is also probably an effective intelligence handicap.
Like others I find it ironic that many of us go out of our way or pay good money to have similar devices, but which can be turned off.