100 years ago primitive electronics meant the average home had a stereo, VCR, DVD, cassette, CD, personal computer, personal TV, personal music players, micro – and electro – everything. Masses of cables and ‘dongles’ and little transformers created an impenetrable mass behind the table.

Video cable, telephone lines and power cables connected it all.

SenseSurround began in the larger cities, and spread to larger towns and suburbs, but it was expensive, too expensive to take to the rural areas.

SenseSurround was a network of aerial and buried cables that blanketed an area, like the old cell phone towers had done long ago. In the city and residential neighborhood, alongside the entire Interstate Highway System II, and a lot of the older highway system, which had become lined with access roads alongside and continuous strip malls from Boston to Miami.  

SenseSurround carried digital signals for everything and everything had a SenseSurround transceiver. A control box could be carried in the pocket – credit card ( remember those?) sized for portable use, notebook ( remember those? ) sized as the home console.

In the home, entertainment was delivered directly to the imaging and perception centers of the brain by transmitting on an extremely high frequency, one that was a harmonic of the cellular essential resonant frequency of the brain cells in the sensory centers. Very, very low power, after a few years of training the brain could select the information coming in through the regular senses, sight, feel, taste or touch, for example, or the same sensations being delivered by SenseSurround.

Young children were unaware and unaffected, but by the time they were about seven years old, could respond to some of the channels, channels configured to deliver sensations appropriate for that age.

In the kitchen, SenseSurround delivered shopping lists, and store inventories, and orders could be placed, matched, and delivered by the community’s delivery system. In the office, paperclips could be ordered and delivered by the same delivery system.

In the bedroom, soothing views and background sounds carry SenseSurfer off to sleepy time. SenseSurround could, and did, carry every other conceivable combination of sensation, too.

SenseSurround in the home media room controlled the whole-wall display, a semi-circular floor to ceiling wrap around to the ends of peripheral vision thin film polyester backed matrix of photoemitters. You became the center of the universe, everything you saw, heard, or felt was directed to you, you vibrated at the resonant frequency of your selected pastime.

Alongside the highway, SenseSurround cables regulated the flow of traffic, controlled the speed, the merge rate from feeder roads, and provided entertainment, too. Once on SenseSafe a people carrier, or transport, would carry you to the designated destination with no intervention at all.

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