17,091 words (≈ about 1 hour)
"It would have been developed anyway. Our little team just sped it up by a couple of years.”
On an isolated university campus in the far North, a group of graduate students develops a device that triggers instant euphoria by stimulating the brain’s pleasure centers. Once it’s in the wild, there will be no more need for narcotics and no way to control the spread of addiction.
Their goal is to end the war on drugs.
When the device is launched, though, it has impacts… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2011
Published: 2011-11-18
Word count: 17,091 words (≈ about 1 hour)
License: Attribution No Derivatives (cc by-nd)
Tags: augmented reality, brain, addiction, neurology
1 book