1: although I was not at class the day that everyone was talking about it, from the bit of research I did it seems that toxoplasma gondii is rather normal. It does not seem to be anything too special as it is not a serious threat, or an epidemic of any kind. Although reading about it may give you some ideas about how parasites work and some of the ways they transfer between hosts and their general composition.
The only animals that are seriously effected by this parasite are cats, and although they are rather susceptible to them. Although as much as a third of the human population is infected with this parasitic disease, it does not cause harm in most cases.
2: Perhaps the second biggest entertainment industry besides games would have to be music and movies. Both of these are long lasting forms of entertainment, but they have one major downfall. With music even though someone may be able to think up a song, they may not have the talent to play a instrument in the real world. But using mind interface implants you could give people the ability to just think of a tune and export it in the purest form, right out of the mind. Now with movies/video it can be a bit more complicated to get a clear image of something in your imagination, so perhaps you could use the same recording method, but with filters, or enhancing programs to clear up your mental images for video , giving you the opportunity to create your own good looking movies, assuming you have the talent to come up with good ideas.
Now even with the ability to easily record music and video from the mind, we can all understand even without the technology existing that the world will be flooded with bad music and movies because of this, just as it is somewhat today with independent music. However, in the future I believe that to counter this even bigger problem that we will create filters to filter out what each person does not want to see, and what they do, sort of like a Google search for mind recorded content.
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