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"Another reason why privacy could be just a passing fad, terrorism is going to get too good. [1997]"
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![]() This is a remarkable (and early) description of a wirelessly networked personal digital assistant. The device is only part of the story; the networked computers that ran these devices had a high degree of artificial intelligence.
This quote comes from an "owner's manual" that is presented to the novel's protagonist.
Note that it works solely with a voice-activated interface.
Joymakers had a variety of amazing functions, most of which are unique predictions by Pohl; see these links for details and quotes for the different joymaker functions:
In his "afterword" for the book, Pohl himself provides a likely timeframe for this piece of technovelgy:
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