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"I think we could solve our problems more easily through strength of character; but that's always been a commodity in extremely short supply."
- Gregory Benford
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| Wrist-Talker | ||
| A communications device worn on the wrist. |
| A sharp buzz-note reached Telzey's ears, wiping out the groping thought- impression. She jumped a little, glanced down. Her wrist-talker was
signaling. For a moment, she seemed poised uncertainly between a world
where unseen, dangerous-sounding beings referred to one as small-bite
and where TT was learning to talk, and the familiar other world where
wrist-communicators buzzed period- ically in a matter-of-fact manner. Set- tling back into the more familiar world, she switched on the talker. "Yes?" she said. Her voice sounded husky. "Telzey, dear," Halet murmured honey-sweet from the talker, "would you come back into the house, please? The living room-We have a visitor who very much wants to meet you..." "All right." Telzey stood up. "I'm coming." "Fine, dear!" The talker went dead. Telzey switched off the instrument, |
| Technovelgy from Novice,
by James Schmitz. Published by Analog in 1962 Additional resources -
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Compare to watchphone from Islands in the Net, wireless wrist intercom from The Shape of things to come, wrist command from Tides of Light, wrist search display from A Matter of Size, wristband viewer from Changeling and wristpad from Red Mars.
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