“US and British scientists say they have found a way to hide an object from microwave radiation in a first step toward making what they hope will be an invisibility cloak…”
For a moment consider how this technology could be used/misused in warfare, industrial espionage, political spying, policing etc. It’s very scary.
It’s a pity the future will remain invisible. We may not want to progress with it any further.
abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20 … 769429.htm
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Once visual cloaking is possible (that of refraction mastery), a new mode of perception will be needed in order to detect a cloaked instance: being able to sense density. It is teletouch, a sense of density already exists, but is non-projected at this time.
Sonar – is similar to teletouch, because it uses the same density-testing paradigm, but uses the kenesis of sound instead of other forms of kenetic energy sensation.
Km I agree about the negative sides but, there are positive sides too.
I see it helping reduce crime, its varient applications to the medical fields could be significant. Abandoning a technology because of only the adverse side is sad waste.
Civilians can use it to hide from inlaws, bill collectors, door to door folks, Just think you won’t have to mow,clean or paint your house until the football season is over. If you don’t want to dress, hey no problem, blend in, it gives flashing a new look. Say your ex is stalking you, well slip into Instablend and look like someone else. Sure there will be the flip side bad uses but, there always are. The only way to stop all crime is to give every baby a brain implant or lobotomize them to sheep. Sorry, I’ll take the bad with the good.
Fear the unknown.
-Thirst 
Invisibility… reminds me of something I read a while ago, give me a sec.
cnn.com/2003/TECH/02/07/japan.invisible.ap/
news.bbc.co.uk/2/2777111.stm
Three years ago in Japan they were working on invisibility with some interesting results - though the yanks and brits in your article seem to be onto something a little better.
What’s the big deal? Most of us are invisible anyway. 
I’ll just wait to see what happens. I’ve been skeptical of this sort of thing ever since I was 10 years old and sent away for the x-ray vision glasses advertised on the back of a comic book. The damned things didn’t work, although the girls in the neighborhood thought they looked nice. 
Then why is the article called “Invisibility Cloak a Step Closer”?
Probably a better title than “How to lose weight without dieting”
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They have succeeded in rendering very large objects entirely invisible to the naked eye before, although it was very uncontrollable and it had serious side effects on the people involved.
It was called the Philadelphia Experiment.
The alleged experiment was conducted by Dr Franklin Reno (or Rinehart) as a military application of Albert Einstein’s unified field theory, or “generalized theory of gravitation." The theory, briefly, postulates the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity. Through a special application of the theory, it was thought to be possible, with specialized equipment and enough energy, to bend light around an object, rendering it essentially invisible. The navy considered this application to be of obvious value in wartime (as the United States was engaged in the Second World War at the time) and approved and sponsored the experiment. A navy destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, was fitted with the required generator equipment at the naval yards in Philadelphia.
Testing began in summer 1943, and was successful to a limited degree. One test, on July 22, resulted in the Eldridge being rendered almost completely invisible, with some witnesses reporting a “greenish fogâ€; however, crew members complained of serious nausea afterwards. At that point, the experiment was altered at the request of the navy, with the new goal being invisible to radar only.
Equipment was not recalibrated, and the experiment was performed again on October 28. This time, Eldridge not only became almost entirely invisible to the naked eye, but vanished from the area in a flash of blue light. Concurrent with this phenomenon, the US naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, just over 600 km (375 miles) away, reported sighting the Eldridge offshore for several minutes, whereupon the Eldridge vanished again and reappeared in Philadelphia, at the site it had originally occupied: a supposed case of accidental teleportation.
The physiological effects on the crew were profound. Almost all of the crew were violently ill. Some suffered from mental illness because of the experience; behavior conforming to schizophrenia is described in some accounts. Still other members were missing —supposedly “vanished†— and five of the crew were allegedly fused to the metal bulkhead or deck of the ship. Horrified, navy officials immediately cancelled the experiment. All of the surviving crew involved were discharged; in some accounts, brainwashing was used to make some crew members forget about the details of their experience.