"The Implications for Stock Traders, for Generals, for World Governments Would Be . . . Considerable"

"VTE."
By S. R. Algernon (Sean Green).
Illustration by JACEY.

First appearance: Nature/Futures, 24 January 2019.
Short short short story (1 page).
Online at Nature.com (HERE; PDF).

 "The thoughts of where this technology could go have got the better of me."

One way you can measure the importance of a new idea is by how many people are afraid 
of it . . .

Resources:
- Our author seems to specialize in the short SFFnal form; see S. R. Algernon's homepage (HERE) and the ISFDb bibliography (HERE).
- For more on the horsey sea monster inside your head, see Wikipedia (HERE).

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