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"Science fiction and science have always danced around each other. Science fiction is the subconscious of science."
- Greg Bear
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| Dolphin's Hands | ||
| Digital prosthetic for dolphins. |
Once you've found out that dolphins are intelligent enough to perform useful tasks for humanity, what can you pay them with?
| "You know those things you pay them off in? They look like a squirt-jet motorboat motor with two padded metal hands attached."
"The Dolphin's Hands. Sure. We sell 'em other stuff, tools and sonic things to move fish around, but Dolphin's Hands are what they mainly need." |
| From Handicap,
by Larry Niven. Published by Galaxy Science Fiction in 1967 Additional resources -
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This is a precursor to the idea of Jones, the cyborg dolphin from William Gibson's 1981 short story Johnny Mnemonic.
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