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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
- Isaac Asimov

Retinal Projection  
  A method for projecting advertisements directly on the retina.  

One remarkable thing about this idea is that you will also find it in the most modern of novels written in the cyberpunk tradition - Starfish by Peter Watts (see eyecaps ).

They listened to the safety cranks and stopped us from projecting our messages on aircar windows - but we bounced back. Lab tells me ... that soon we'll be testing a system that projects directly on the retina of the eye.
From The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth).
Published by St. Martin's Press in 1952
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Is this the first idea for a heads-up display? The earliest reference for working heads-up displays is the early 1970's in USAF fighter jets.

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