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"We were essentially being shell-shocked by rapid change. That was one of the things you needed science-fiction writers for back in the Sixties, because we could cope with the future."
- Peter Watts
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| Electro-Culturer | ||
| A device used to artificially stimulate cell growth and development. |
In the story, a young man died in a tragic electrocution accident, but fortunately it was possible to maintain his brain artificially for ten thousand years! In the future, you'll need a larger brain to keep up.
| "Your capacity for brain development has been increased ten-fold...
But what was more startling and electrifying was the object they were bent over. It was the brain of a man. The two scientists seemed deeply engrossed in a pencil of orange light they were focusing on a part of the brain. “There you see us beginning to culture the cells of your brain so that they can develop to a greater degree. We found that only a small fraction of the total capacity was developed naturally. The tube you see me looking through while Doctor Volor trains the electro-culturer on the cells is an electric microscope with which I am watching the cells as they expand.” |
| From The Ancient Brain,
by A.G. Stangland. Published by Science Wonder Stories in 1929 Additional resources -
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Compare to the bubbleheads from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick.
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