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"I think we're still on that topic, still trying to figure out what computers are, how they change us, why we use them."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Generate New Phone Number | ||
| A software program that creates a new phone number for each call. |
For those who don't want to be tracked, this is a great idea.
| So I called people all over the country - interesting phone system he's got, by the way; it generates a new number for every call, and you can't call back or trace it. |
| Technovelgy from Press Enter,
by John Varley. Published by Davis Publications in 1984 Additional resources -
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Compare to J.G. Ballard's free telephone call from The Subliminal Man (1963) and the pocket phone from Robert Heinlein's 1953 story Assignment in Eternity.
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