REAL reality TV

okay, so this involves a little technology that doesn't exist yet, and is a little far fetched, but it'd be damn cool-

SOMEDAY, we'll have the ability to "patch in" to people's nerves. We'll be able to surgically implant a device attached to one's optic nerve and one's aural nerve, implant a transmitter, and have that person be a walking, talking camcorder. It might be (instead of the optic and aural nerve) those centers of the brain, as I'm sure the brain does some post-processing particularly on the image side (error-correction, image stabilization), and perhaps if we locate the right place on the brain, we could even tap into someone's internal monologue.

So anyway, once we have this technology, we could hold auditions and have a group of people be selected as possible candidates for the show. They sign a bunch of waivers and stuff, and understand that if selected, they will, without prior knowledge of their selection, be anesthetized in their sleep, have these devices implanted, and then be transported to a random location (e.g. botswana, togo, etc.) and dropped off there to wake up all by themselves with little or no money and just their clothes or few provisions. When they get home, they get $10M or something crazy.

I'd watch. Although I imagine the first hour or two of the show will be something like:

"What the %#$^!? Where the #$%@ am I? #&*$!!!"

It would also be cool because the viewer would hardly ever actually SEE the contestant.

And then, if it's possible for this technology to exist, then it should be just as possible for people to have RECEIVERS implanted, and then get to see/hear/smell/taste/feel what the contestant is experiencing.