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"The permanent government now is the anchorpeople. They don't get elected, and year after year they're responding emotionally to this or that."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Kinagram | ||
| Small print-size icons that presented a moving image. |
| ...tags sewn into the back of the collar. I could see the logo of a company, which I recognized from ten years ago, though they had made it simpler. Below it was a grid of tiny pictures that moved. "Kinagrams. They obsoleted Logotype." |
| Technovelgy from Anathem,
by Neal Stephenson. Published by Morrow in 2008 Additional resources -
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The word "kinagram" is interesting; in the 1920's, "kinescope" was used to describe the CRT in television receivers. The root word "kine" is from the Greek meaning "motion" and "gram" derives from the latin for letter. So, a kinagram is a moving letter or series of letters.
Stephenson fans may think they've seen something like this before; take a look at the mediaglyphics from his 1995 book The Diamond Age.
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