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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

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If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
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[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also from: The Diamond Age (1995) by Neal Stephenson:

You could get a phantascopic system planted directly on your retinas, just as Bud's sound system lived on his eardrums. You could even get teleasthetics patched into your spinal column at various key vertebrae. But this was said to have its drawbacks: some concerns about long-term nerve damage, plus it was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the fucking middle) all the time - even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who'd somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, super-imposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ooo! Cyberpunk I've never heard of. Gotta read that.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Also check out Snow Crash which is considered one of the seminal works of cyberpunk. Same author, Neal Stephenson, and set in the same world though they're set about a century apart and are only very loosely linked.