Color, Light and Time

Today the ideas of light, color and time were all briefly mentioned in lecture today, and I had found an article that discusses in depth what two of these are: Light and Time. From a physics standpoint the slowing down and acceleration of light to achieve "invisibility" astounds me. The fact that we have the technology, or at least the know-how, to accomplish something like this and make Harry Potter a reality is incredible; with no wand required either. After reading this it made me curious as to what I really knew about both Light and Time. The two I thought were concrete enough and now I can learn about them in a truly mind boggling way. The writer declares this as, "the most awesome and the most dangerous idea ever..." This now brought a series of new questions to my attention: how can I use this to trick my friends; when can this be perfected to bring the two people into a conversational distance versus having them a mile apart from each other; will this technology be used for less than legitimate purposes; will light-bending-time-cheating crime be a thing of the future; will this all be the plot to the next James Bond movie?

Technology I find is amazing and the advances it is making is equally a wonder. Conversely, I feel like technology is also our greatest Achilles heel of our time.