free to a good home

[james_davis_nicoll]

Story idea: while on public assistance, welfare recipients are denied the use of their colour vision, as well as their senses of smell and taste.

Comments

[chrysostom]

This is kicking me into YASID land. Guy is punished for a crime by not being able to use any computers, and all currency is electronic, so it's pretty challenging. Asimov?

[austin_dern]

Yeah, Asimov, A Perfect Fit, 1981.

http://www.asimovreviews.net/Stories/Story206.html

[(Anonymous)]

Still available on the web at the site of the magazine that originally published it http://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4319939/A-perfect-fit

[james_davis_nicoll]

This is breaking the margins of recent comments.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry. I never remember how to code around links.

[conuly]

Prescient. It's not that bad IRL, but there are still people being sentenced to not use computers, and it's getting harder and harder to live like that.