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I AM ALAN GLYNN, AND I APPROVED THIS MESSAGE
No, the clear pill is not real.
Ok so this is the actual book report on The Dark Fields which has since been renamed and released as a motion picture called Limitless by Alan Glynn I have both read the book and watched the movie. There is some basis in fact for the movie, in that there were historical efforts toward development of artificial psychotropic drugs to promote human intelligence.
Both the discovery of the helical structure of DNA and the iPhone are credited as two examples of major scientific developments resulting from use of LSD, as an example. Steve Jobs credits his iphone innovation to LSD and James Watson who discovered the double helical structure of DNA was a big LSD user.
So the theory is that the trigraph acronym drug LSD was actually just one version of an ongoing development, and the story explores the hypothetical scenario in which predecessor and subsequent laboratory drugs in the LSD lineage were released on the market - those that actually enhance human intelligent directly, as opposed to leading to psychedelic trips like LSD.
In the book, one such drug is MDT-48 which is used by Edie Mora, a failing writer, who ultimately becomes a huge success but also dependent upon the drug.
For the movie they called it NZT-48 (all three letter acronyms are of course, a play on the three letter acronym for LSD) and he ultimately becomes senator who develops his own lab to continue improving the drug.
Spoiler alert.
[Edited on August 8, 2014 at 2:44 PM. Reason : ] 8/8/2014 2:32:37 PM |