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Death by Ecstasy

Dystopia

Invasive

Novel

BCI Name

droud

First Published

1969

Form Factor

implant

linking

Linking

Hero finds Owen with a droud (a wirehead's transformer) plugged into the back of his head. The latter apparently starved himself to death while continuously stimulating the pleasure center of his own brain.

42%

Reality Factor

130yrs

BCI Forecast

64%

Neuroptimism

27%

Neurafictionality

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