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"In WWII, they had a saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. I think the modern equivalent of that is that there are no jaded, bored people in the high-tech industry, in the land of really good hardcore geeks."
- Neal Stephenson

Dolphin's Hands  
  Digital prosthetic for dolphins.  

Once you've found out that dolphins are intelligent enough to perform useful tasks for humanity, what can you pay them with?

"You know those things you pay them off in? They look like a squirt-jet motorboat motor with two padded metal hands attached."

"The Dolphin's Hands. Sure. We sell 'em other stuff, tools and sonic things to move fish around, but Dolphin's Hands are what they mainly need."

Technovelgy from Handicap, by Larry Niven.
Published by Galaxy Science Fiction in 1967
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This is a precursor to the idea of Jones, the cyborg dolphin from William Gibson's 1981 short story Johnny Mnemonic.

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