Dangers

On the flip side, all media covering SimStim does explore the darker aspects of the technology. You could never guarantee completely, a conversation with one individual is just between you and them. If the individual has prosthetic enhancements in their brain, one of them could be a SimStim connector.

Strange Days covered the potential ability to fry the neurons in the brain from a blast of over stimulation from a carefully prepared fake recording. Such a blast could realistically fry the synapses, taking out the higher functions, leaving a subject a mindless vegetable, but not legally dead.


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