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"Bureaucracies hide their mistakes, because people's careers are tied to those mistakes. Therefore, bureaucracies are a perfect mechanism for perpetuating mistakes."
- Frank Herbert
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| Twist-Box | ||
| A device that scrambles your sensory input, providing you with a different kind of experience. |
This is an interesting notion; I can't think of another novel using the idea of hacking a person's reality in quite this way.
| It was the day after Christmas, and Stahn was plugged in… The twist-box took his sensory input, jazzed it and passed it on to his cortex. A pure software high, and no somatic aftereffects. Staring out the window was almost interesting. The maggies left jagged trails and the people looked like actors. |
| Technovelgy from Wetware,
by Rudy Rucker. Published by Avon Books in 1988 Additional resources -
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You could continue this line of thinking by using a device to create synesthesia; where colors have a flavor, or where sounds have a smell.
Compare to the jumble-box from Changeling (1980) by Roger Zelazny.
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