As time passes people are looking more and more into sci-fi for inspiration to deal with the issues of the modern day. That being said, we all have all digital everything. Holograms of children will be all we need soon enough and we will become seat bound fatties like in Wall-e.
But while we are still mobile, and the number of violent acts rise... law enforcement officials and military counterparts must have ways to subdue the billions of people in the world. So whats the best way to go about immobilizing the perps? The STFU gun? Perhaps, but in the same respect, scientists have been tinkering with other ideas of how to approach non-lethal ways of stabbing people in the back... of their brains.
