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"I've got this beautiful panoramic three-dimensional painting of Mars based on Martian photos. It's 30 feet wide. You can pick out every pebble on the Martian landscape. And who'd have dreamed you could do that?"
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Cyborg Dolphin (Jones) | ||
| A heavily modified war surplus dolphin. |
Who could you go to get the keys to data stored in a chip in your head? Why, a war surplus dolphin who was trained to use special sensors that complimented his own sonar in underwater work like decomissioning mines by nosing into their circuits electromagnetically.
| He was more than a dolphin, but from another dolphin's point of view he might have seemed like something less. I watched him swirling sluggishly in his galvanized tank. Water slopped over the side, wetting my shoes. He was surplus from the last war. A cyborg.
He rose out of the water, showing us the crusted plates along his sides, a kind of visual pun, his grace nearly lost under armor, clumsy and prehistoric. Twin deformities on either side of his skull had been engineered to house sensor units. Silver lesions gleamed on exposed sections of his gray-white hide. |
| Technovelgy from Johnny Mnemonic,
by William Gibson. Published by Omni International in 1981 Additional resources -
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For an earlier, similar, idea, see the Dolphin's Hands from Larry Niven's 1967 story Handicap.
Also, compare to cyborg from Cyborg (1972) by Martin Caidin, the cyborg collar from A Specter is Haunting Texas (1968) by Fritz Leiber, and the cyborg pilot from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert Heinlein.
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