Also sounds very Transmetropolitan.

I still prefer the old fashioned way - fluid transfer

Ehhh the only one I partake in hasn't changed in thousands of years, so I'm not expecting a radical change in 20.

When combined with transcranial magnetic stimulation - which has been used to inhibit brain functions such as the ability to speak or remember - it opens up the possibility of electronically delivering targeted highs.

I don't know if it'll become a drug, but you know who's going to use this? Marketing people. Every time they show you an image of a sexy car, they'll hit you with a big dose of dopamine, oxytocin, endorphins, anything to make you feel like you're becoming aroused or excited and they're going to condition you like Pavlov's dog. That way, the next time you walk down the street and you see that car at the dealership, you're going to get a stiff one and you'll stop thinking about anything but getting that car.

That's the future, man, and it's a terrible place.

There was a British sci-fi novel called Vurt where drugs involved putting a feather down your throat.

The editor had Poor Impulse Control

ClintonKun: those spoked wheel things

I don't have smartwheels on my car. Where did you get yours?

The article links to this, rather nonchalantly... http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/23/reconstructingvision

Now, it's pretty crude and contrived at this point - however, it still gives me the heebie-jeebies thinking about what that could develop into.

ClintonKun: theorellior: ClintonKun: those spoked wheel things

I don't have smartwheels on my car. Where did you get yours?

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The idea obviously hasn't taken off, either that or it was just a design exercise. But it was damn close to what was in the book.

Wear problems, plus they are VERY LOUD!!!