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Brain Interfaces – Fiction becoming fact.

A brain implant which restores vision by stimulating the cortex directly, entirely bypassing lens, retina and optic nerve!

http://www.massdevice.com/second-sight-reveals-1st-implant-orion-visual-cortical-stimulator/

This is basically the tech used by Spex in my Singularity’s Children books.

My #top100 #scifi Num:51 The Fountains of Paradise

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An elevator to space – a crazy idea at the time, made so plausible and obvious that today we assume it’s only a matter of time. Clark carving the possible with imagination. Direct and straightforward prose. Probably the last of his best.

Arthur C Clarke

My #top100 #scifi Num:52 Footfall

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The reality of interstellar warfare is that the attackers inevitably have the high ground.

Here, our cute and somewhat bumbling alien invaders, take a very can-do attitude to aggressive population reduction…

Underrated classic Science Fiction

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

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