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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
- Isaac Asimov
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| DC Mini | ||
| A therapy tool that allows a psychotherapist to enter a patient's dreams. |
The brilliant researcher Tokita Kohsaku (voiced by Toru Furuya) creates the DC Mini, a device that resembles a bluetooth cellphone earpiece. The device allows psychotherapists to actually enter the dreamworld of their patients.
 (Tokita Kohsaku with his DC Mini) |
| Technovelgy from Paprika,
by Satoshi Kon. Published by Sony International in 2007 Additional resources -
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I don't want to give away too much of the plot of this excellent film; let's just say that when several of the DC Minis go missing, the DC Mini can be used in ways that its creator never imagined.
Roger Zelazny anticipated this idea in his 1966 novel The Dream Master; see the entry for the dream console.
Also, compare this item with the lucid dreamer from Peter Watts' 1999 novel Starfish and the empathy box from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
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