TECH
The Intergalactic
Space Chronicle
Love Potion Gets FDA Approval
By William Freedman
It seems like mythology and old films have always warned us about love potions, after all forcing someone to want something they’re not naturally inclined to want, isn’t very nice.
But research has also shown that the more we know about someone the more we feel connected to them and are likely to care about them.
This latest “Love Potion” is based on what's called “Flood information” this is when one’s mind is flooded with information about one particular subject. In this case, that subject would be you or someone else.
One can drink the liquid, which consisted of tiny nano-tech that will travel to the consumer's brain and then completely bombard them with information about the person who gave the potion to them.
Once one’s mind is flooded with the most intimate information about the other person they are 70% likely to fall in love with them. That is not to say they will stay in love with them. After all, familiarity also breeds contempt.
What does it mean if it didn’t work! After they’ve heard and seen everything there is to know about you? Well, you’re most likely not the best of matches.
Is it moral to give someone such a potion? Will there be rules and guidelines for this potion when it’s released?
The creators of this “Love Potion” say you legally require a person’s consent to give them the potion. But there’s a catch 22 here. If a person slips the potion into their date's soup and they fall in love with them, they aren’t likely to know and if they do find out would they press charges if they're in love?
And if they loathe the said potion giver at the end of their date, well the potion drinker certainly won’t be suspecting a love potion involved in the mix.
A scary prospect indeed. One could find themselves in marriage through “Love Potion”, designing kids together, taking trips to the Moon, never knowing they were influenced by external tech. Then again would it matter if you loved that potion giver?
Let's agree that the love potion etiquette should be two consenting adults deciding to take the love potion together. Certainly no spiking punch bowls at a party!! A crowd of people falling for you might sound good on paper, but that's gonna be a weird party.