If this is manufacturable, I can see lots of applications. Imagine taking sports photos of a football catch with a phone, not a 2000$ camera with an $8,000 lens to gather enough light. Or, a 3” telescope taking images without a clock drive that would have taken a 100” telescope a half-hour to develop.
Yep, this should be a huge boon for astronomers and cosmologists; any telescope will suddenly be a 1,000 times more powerful.
Add loss of freedom to your list. The intrusiveness of government placed night vision cameras will invade society beyond anyone’s dreams. Americans are already accepting a government that can destroy organizations through taxation, environment agencies that raid lawful businesses, spying on the press, targeting auditing to close business and silence critics, etc... What a scary world we live in. I do not welcome technology that can destroy privacy put in the hands a of a government intent on crushing freedom.