Who discovered the existence of the dead? Everyone knows the name of
Antonia Simone, but the exact circumstances of her discovery are wildly varied.
In 1992, her younger brother Ricardo, was injured in a martial arts accident
that left him completely paralyzed. He needed a respirator to live and could
only communicate through eyeblinks. She was a computer scientist at the Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center and decided to create a computer terminal sensitive
to the slightest energy source. She was a student of Kirlian photography and
strongly believed the body’s electromagnetic fields could affect sensitive
electronic equipment. She created a terminal that could not be affected by
traditional means – no keyboard, mouse or other input devices. A veritable
black box.
Ms. Simone was devoted to her brother and tried for
years to make a computer terminal that would allow her brother to communicate
naturally. Distraught over the failure of her terminal, which she thought would
free thousands of similarly afflicted people, she killed herself by hanging.
When paramedics found her body days later, there on a computer screen was the
message: “What took you guys so long? I’ve got the most important news.”
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