We have been able to slow down the greenhouse effect.
Science has cured cancer.
Scientists are treated as rock stars.
Documentaries are popular.
Halona knew that she wanted to study science, without any real aptitude for it. Her parents, both in the STEM industry, were thrilled (and probably encouraged her a little too quickly into the field). She studies the brain, and in particular the senses. In an effort to create an empathy conductor, she stumbles upon a way to allow a person to experience the same sense that another person is experiencing instantaneously. This would be incredible, if it worked by allowing someone to see literally through someone else's eyes, or by allowing a deaf person to hear what someone else hears, or by letting congressmen feel the pain of being shot in war. Unfortunately, Halona hits a wall. She discovers that the conduit for empathy is limited to the sense of taste, the most subjective of all senses.
What good will it do to share taste with another person? People don't like the same things. If Joe eats a steak and wants to share it with Sally, you'd better hope Sally likes her steak cooked medium rare.
Halona asks her parents for help. They suggest she hide her findings. This is really rather embarrassing. It's better to have no discovery than a stupid one. Tell people you're still working on it, but don't let on that you've gotten to this result.
I mean, really.
With something as disappointing as this, you might as well have been a poltician.
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