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"As the rate of technological development speeds up, the gap between science fiction and what we’re living now is getting narrower all the time."
- Richard Morgan

Implanted Interface With Retinal Nerves  
  Circuitry that provides a 'look' at what the eye sees.  

Implant function had been up to expectation from the moment the bandages came off. And in glorious Tri-color too. They hummed and buzzed, and said their their only remaining doubts concerned impedance in retinal nerve endings
From The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (The Unsleeping Eye), by D.G. Compton.
Published by Pocket in 1973
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