In 1993, the Wall Street Journal depicted the battlefield of the future as one filled with induced sounds, and nonlethal weapons that could “dazzle [enemies] with lasers, putting them to sleep with calmative chemicals and even confusing them with holographic projections in the clouds above them – perhaps images of Muslim martyrs telling them to go home.” These kinder, gentler methods could help subdue the U.S. domestic civilian and prison population as well. If it came to that.
