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![]() In the tomorrow explored in this novella, wearable computers display data right before your eyes.
Vinge expands on the idea in his 2006 novel Rainbows End, set in the same milieu:
Miri... leaned her head forward, and stuck a finger close to her right eye. "You already know about contacts, right? Wanna see one?" Her hand came away from her eye. A tiny disk sat on the tip of her middle finger. It was the size and shape of the contact lenses he had known. He hadn't expected more, but... he bent closed and looked. After a moment, he realized that it was not quite a clear lens. Speckles of colored brightness swirled and gathered in it. "I'm driving it at safety max, or you wouldn't see the lights." The tiny lens became hazy, then frosty white. "Uk. It powered down. But you get the idea.."
If you think that this form of display is a bit intrusive, you're right. As one character remarks in Rainbows End:
You'd need to go back a ways to find the earliest use of this kind of idea. Try the retinal vid-screen from Philip K. Dick's 1954 story Sales Pitch.
Compare to DreamTime Scleral Contact Lenses from The California Voodoo Game (1992) by Larry Niven (w/S. Barnes). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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