This isn’t my idea. Best I know it’s John Hodgman‘s, with a little help from several decades and several multi-verses of superhero comics. John Hodgman went around asking people to choose between two superpowers and explain their choice for a segment on This American Life back in 2001. And the choice (you might remember?) goes like this. You only get to pick one, and you are the only one in the world with this power: Flight, or invisibility. You could choose flight. If you choose flight, all you need is your body and you can soar, soar soar. Or you could choose invisibility, stay more grounded, scurrying and scampering unsurveilled as you carry out your pet projects, tiny revolutions and grand plans for domination. Which would you choose? Of course there are administrative details. The superpower you get is a stand-alone, not simply one aspect of a superpower variety pack. So super-strength doesn’t accompany flight and invulnerability doesn’t accompany invisibility. You’ve got to take the one you’ve got and make it work. On the bright side, you don’t have to strip down to your skivvies to get imperceptible, and you won’t catch a chill no matter how high you fly
