The dark fields
by Alan Glynn · first published 2001
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Imagine a drug that makes your brain function with perfect efficiency, tapping into your most fundamental resources of intelligence and drive, releasing all the passive knowledge you'd ever accumulated. A drug that made you focused, charming, fast, even attractive. Eddie Spinola is on such a drug. It's called MDT-48, and it's Viagra for the brain--a designer drug that's redesigning his life. But while MDT is helping Eddie achieve the kind of success he's only dreamed about, it's also chipping away at his sanity--splitting headaches, spontaneous blackouts, violent outbursts. And now that he'
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Limitless is the film version of Alan Glynn's book The Dark Fields. It was published in 2001, so it would've been written before or at most a year or two after modafinil got FDA approval, and long before modafinil was popularized by Wired, etc in the mid-2000s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Fields…
on “An Experience with Modafinil” ↗I asked Alan Glynn (the author of The Dark Fields / Limitless) two days ago on twitter if he had based it on Modafinil. His reply (in a public tweet): "Thanks - no, all made up, wrote it nearly 15 yrs ago, before I'd heard of modafinil, certainly before…
on “Toward a Pill That Helps Us Learn as Fast as Kids” ↗…called, but there does seem to be something significant to the idea that it's inspiring to read about/watch extremely intelligent people flexing their intelligence. 0. The film is based on a book, The Dark Fields, which doesn't seem quite so positive, although I haven't read it. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7BRQ9neSrw
on “Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]” ↗