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"We are all repositories for genetically-encoded information that we're all spreading back and forth amongst each other, all the time. We're just lousy with information."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Psypyx | ||
| A way of gathering and recording mental impressions. |
I really like this as an alternative to the usual attempts to record minds by collecting electrical impulses. This device really appears to collect impressions, the whole mental image: not just the picture of the scene, but how the person felt.
| "I kept in touch with Johan while he was wearing your psypyx, because we both thought it was important for you to stay in touch with as many people as possible..." |
| Technovelgy from Earth Made of Glass,
by John Barnes. Published by Tom Doherty Associates in 1998 Additional resources -
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This presents an interesting kind of support group that will be necessary for people who have been killed, but regrown.
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