• meldroc
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    1 year ago

    A long time ago I read some cyberpunk novel, and one of the characters had an ocular implant that got infected with malware that flashed spam ads for Indian brothels in his vision 24/7, even with his eyes closed, until he went completely postal.

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      They touched on this concept in the black mirror episode “Fifteen Million Merits”. Very minor spoilers, read on if you dare

      Not with a brain implant per se. But had to pay merits or else watch porn ads. And if you don’t have any merits, guess what they’re unskippable.

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      1 year ago

      Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

      Edit: oh heck. It might have been The Diamond Age.

      Edit 2: search yielded

      “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