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"Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes."
- William Gibson
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| Skull Bug | ||
| A small electronic device implanted in the cranium at birth; used for monitoring and control. |
Alfred Bester creates a wild free-for-all world in this novel. I'm not sure if this is the first reference to the idea of implanting a monitoring device at birth - anyone?
| ...you live in the homes of our Group and you don't know what's going on in the crazy culture outside. It's a bugged and drugged world. Ninety percent of the bods have bugs implanted in their skulls in hospital when they're born. They're monitored constantly. The air is crisscrossed with thousands of broadcasts. |
| Technovelgy from The Computer Connection,
by Alfred Bester. Published by Berkeley Publishing in 1974 Additional resources -
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Be sure to also see VeriChip RFID Tags To Be Implanted In Patients.
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| Spherical Police Robot Rolls In China |
| Vietnam To Have Full Biometric Transparency |
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