Dumb Ol’ Facts Anyway

When I was writing about this kind of thing back in the Eighties, I recall being denounced to my face on a panel at a science fiction convention, by s writer who claimed that the mind-machine interface was just dumb fantasy, because it wasn’t Supported By The Facts— any electrode inserted in the brain would be eaten, or dissolved.  Or something.

The audience was urged to avoid stupid fantasy literature like Hardwired, and to read the author’s Real He-Man SF, Complete With Facts.

I don’t recall ever hearing from that author again.  And here, courtesy of alert friend Jo Lynn and 60 Minutes, is a video of a machine operated by thought.