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"There's a poetry in the materials we use to construct our world of artifacts; it speaks of our long history as a technological species."
- William Gibson
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| Membrane | ||
| A listening device. |
| She was somewhere behind me, near the closet door. The unit was rustling, falling. I was listening, all listening. I remembered - no, it glistened in my mind for one hundredth of a second - I once had to calculate the curve of a new type of street membrane. (These membranes are handsomely decorated and are placed over all the avenues, registering all street conversations for the Bureau of Guardians.) I remembered a rosy, concave trembling membrane, a strange being consisting of one organ only, an ear... |
| Technovelgy from We,
by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Published by Not Known in 1922 Additional resources -
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Compare to the telescreen from George Orwell's 1984.
Compare also to this stele found in ancient Egypt!
(Egyptian stele with ears, dedicated by Amenemope
to the sky-goddess Hathor “who listens to prayers”.
From Thebes, c.1100 BC)
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