Jerry Gilman yawned and wiped his face with a towel.Jerry Gilman yawned and wiped his face with a towel. He stared blearily at his watch. Slowly, his eyes focused on the face. 2:30 A.M. He carefully put down the soldering iron and stared at the device on his bench. The Amplifier didn't look like much. A tangle of wiring and integrated circuits. In the center was one of the new room-temperature superconducing chips. He'd had to scrounge it from the University's Supplies Department...well, he thought...steal it, really. The idea had come to him one day as he worked on his PhD thesis. He was working on a double doctorate, Cognitive Science and Electronics. His thesis had to do with 'coupling' to brain signals. Originally, he'd expected the work to lead to better EEG machines. But a breakthrough had happened. Jerry had realized that there were two sides to communicating with the brain. And the new superconductors...He had been working like a fiend for two months. He hadn't mentioned it to his thesis advisors--the implications were too huge. |