Augmented Hearing?

Technology is expanding more and more every day. According to this link, Noah Kraft, co-founder of Doppler Labs, thinks that the future may hold “super computers that can fit in the ears.” If you are familiar with The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, you have probably seen the alien-worm creature that lets the protagonists hear other languages. This article said that they created Here Earbuds that will one day translate a person speaking another language in real-time. Currently these earbuds have the ability to “turn off your nagging mother or the dog barking,” according to Hans Zimmer. The Here Earbuds intensify the power of our ears and give a whole new meaning to selective hearing. If humans naturally had the power to control their ears to that extent, we’d already be super humans. This is just another example of how technology is endlessly more useful than it is a problem in our society.