> just as Bud's sound system lived on his eardrums. You could even get
> telæsthetics 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, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his
> visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself.
-- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
> just as Bud's sound system lived on his eardrums. You could even get
> telæsthetics 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, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his
> visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself.
-- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age