This is something also related to the past “Sonic Zoom” chapter of the “Sunday Sound Thought” series of DS articles: https://designingsound.org/2016/04/sunday-sound-thought-17-sonic-zoom/

But I like to think at it with an “acoustic ecology” point of view too.

The quoted post about the Audioscope system (an amazing technology, by the way!) brought my mind back (someway obvious) to the iconic movie “The Conversation” from Francis Ford Coppola.

Fine, but now, focusing on this month’ theme, I wonder… how far will technology and supercomputing go in reaching the ability to collimate and isolate spectral audio information?
Will they be able to pull out not only a meaningful information (the case for human voice extraction), nor basically the “wanted signal” (the case for an analog audio chain), but the DNA itself and the intimacy of our personal world of sounds, from the big-audio-data pools of the future?

Of course, this topic mainly seems to get driven by security issues, but what about its implications for our auditory and overall sensorial experience? At times, human things prove to be brittle, and they are liable to break down if their boundaries are pushed too hard.