Goodreads asked Michael Patrick Hicks:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Michael Patrick Hicks Back in 1999, I’d read a story off the BBC News site about a team of scientists who, with a series of wires and recording devices, were able to tap into a cat’s brain and create a live recording of what the feline was seeing. And that’s where the kernel of the idea for what grew into the DRMR technology I write about in Convergence came from. There have been a lot of other significant medical and technological breakthroughs in the fifteen years since, particularly through DARPA’s research, which really helped solidify the ideas I was having and writing about.

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