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" I think that computers today allow us one last opportunity to provide something like a level playingfield in America."
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| Luxvid Eyes (Jensen Wide-Angle) | ||
| Artificial, unmoving implanted eyes. |
| And he was blind... But replacements had been made - at the prices which Eldritch could and would pay; that had been done just prior to his Prox voyage by Brazilian oculists. They had done a superb job. The replacements, fitted into the bone sockets, had no pupils, nor did any ball move by muscular action. Instead a panoramic vision was supplied by a wide-angle lens, a permanent horizontal slot running from edge to edge... His horizontally slotted artificial eyes seemed to please him... |
| Technovelgy from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Doubleday in 1965 Additional resources -
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