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To: dynachrome

Larry Niven wrote some interesting sci-fi about “wire heads and wire-heading” centered around his character Louis Wu...

The wire head pretty much gives up everything else in life once it’s possible to directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain...


8 posted on 08/25/2020 6:50:13 PM PDT by elteemike (Light is faster than sound; that's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: elteemike

“wire head”

Good stories, including the one where a guy was murdered by the wire being jacked into his brain and the timer disabled. Starved to death in his room behind a locked door.


10 posted on 08/25/2020 6:54:29 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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