“Oh no, what will happen if I just came out of the shower and the phone rings,” your granny would ask and look seriously worried.

“Well, the device would have an on-off switch,” you would calmly reply, but the worried look would not go away.

People apparently didn’t trust themselves enough to even think it would be possible not to pick up the phone naked on their way out of the shower.



But that was then. Today hardly anyone picks up the phone. And there probably are very few people who have accidentally accepted a Skype call naked. In 10 or 15 years, when thought-controlled texting and emailing might be commercially available, it is going to be just as unlikely that your most naughty, rude or immoral thoughts are going to be transferred by sheer accident to the salesperson at the liquor store or your spouse during your anniversary dinner. In fact, you probably will be more concerned about your kids thinking too much to each other at the dinner table instead of eating their vegetables than about you thinking something inappropriate yourself.