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![]() The world of Snow Crash offers a display that is short of actually connecting your brain to the Internet.
A similar device is mentioned in William Gibson's 1996 novel Idoru - the eyephone.
If you are interested in a real-world analog to the sound system on data goggles, see the Science Fiction in the News story on Thump Eyewear.
Compare also to magic spectacles from Pygmalion's Spectacles (1935) by Stanley G. Weinbaum, video glasses from Islands in the Net (1988) by Bruce Sterling, Tru-Vu Lenses from Earth (1990) by David Brin, eyecaps from Starfish (1999) by Peter Watts, overlay specs from Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross and HUD glasses from Daemon (2009) by Daniel Suarez. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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