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Playback Effect

Karen A. Wyle (2014)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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"O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!" But what if it's the other way round? New technology records the highlights of emotional experience for others to share. Buy a helmet and you can feel the exhilaration of an Olympic ski jumper, or the heat of a lucid dreamer's erotic imaginings. Commit a crime, and you may be sentenced to endure the suffering you inflicted on others. But such recordings may carry more information than the public has realized. What will criminals learn about their victims? When a husband is wrongfully convicted of injuring his wife, how will their marriage change? And what uses will a sociopath find for recordings of the experience of death?