More brain-fallout
It glistened wetly in the soft blue lights of the complex, floating in the slightly sticky liquid which accompanied it inside its box.
The first of its kind. A long, thin filament of smooth, softly shining metal leading to a small matte black box - about three centimeters square. If you could touch it, you would notice it was slightly warm, almost indistinguishable from your fingertips. If you lifted it from its resting place you might see the faint silver tracery which lined the entire surface of the black cube, excepting the face where its wire protruded. It would drip wetly, perhaps spattering small drops of solution on the cold steel surface of the table on which it lay.
The wire would at first seem plain, almost identical to the braided aluminum which can be found in the walls of houses, but as you looked closer, you could see something strange. A purplish tinge, for this wire is not base metal, but a special room-temperature superconductor. Finally, the end would catch your attention. A plug.
Not just any plug, though. Definitely a data port interface, but slightly different than anything you had ever seen.
Then you would understand. After all, you couldn't expect to shunt the whole of human perception through an S-video or USB cable, could you?
Author's note: Once again completely unedited other than the on-the-fly stuff which happens while writing. Made in about fifteen minutes because it came out of my fingers.
The first of its kind. A long, thin filament of smooth, softly shining metal leading to a small matte black box - about three centimeters square. If you could touch it, you would notice it was slightly warm, almost indistinguishable from your fingertips. If you lifted it from its resting place you might see the faint silver tracery which lined the entire surface of the black cube, excepting the face where its wire protruded. It would drip wetly, perhaps spattering small drops of solution on the cold steel surface of the table on which it lay.
The wire would at first seem plain, almost identical to the braided aluminum which can be found in the walls of houses, but as you looked closer, you could see something strange. A purplish tinge, for this wire is not base metal, but a special room-temperature superconductor. Finally, the end would catch your attention. A plug.
Not just any plug, though. Definitely a data port interface, but slightly different than anything you had ever seen.
Then you would understand. After all, you couldn't expect to shunt the whole of human perception through an S-video or USB cable, could you?
Author's note: Once again completely unedited other than the on-the-fly stuff which happens while writing. Made in about fifteen minutes because it came out of my fingers.