While the idea may seem repugnant to some and just crazy paranoid to others, there are a lot of tech-crazy trail-blazers who think that an ear-bud is too cumbersome, or that if it says ‘Apple’ on it, they have to have it. . These people will be enough to push-start the market to its eventual conclusion.

These devices won’t come from the NSA or any other three-letter-agency, but from companies like Verizon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon.

Pharmacy employees at Best-Buy and Wal-Mart will be trained to perform the (by then) simple procedure.

The “bleeding edge” people will “pre-order” their implants and then stand in line overnight, in the rain to be the first to get them.