An Object of Vision

A simple operation embeds a speck-sized camera lens into the cornea and wires a nanocomputer the size of a DNA strand into the optic nerve.The result is a heads-up display in your vision, controlled through a series of eye twitches, a computer at your bidding: always recording, a constant witness.

My cyberpunk Perseus/Medusa story: a fixer tries to find a virus that could infect the visual computers implanted in everyone’s eyes, that could turn everyone to stone.

Read if you like: William Gibson but make it more mythy; people whose uppance has come; the office scenes in Blade Runner.

Available as part of Fission #4, an anthology from the BSFA: Physical, Digital.

(Edited by Eugen Bacon and Gene Rowe.)