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"Cyberpunk worked when the Internet was in its hand-wound crystal radio phase, when you had to be a sort of hobbyist to do e-mail, and it all had a very steep learning curve. Those days are over."
- William Gibson
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| Transmit Camera | ||
| A camera that both takes pictures and uploads it directly to a news station. |
This idea is now being used in cellphones, of course, which allow you to take a picture and then upload it to a server where other people can see it. There are also cameras that offer direct connection for uploading your pictures.
| I didn't hear Bish's reply. By that time, the tugs were almost to the ship. I grabbed up the telephoto camera and aimed it. It has its own power unit, and transmits directly. In theory, I could tune it to the telecast station and put what I was getting right on the air, and what I was doing was transmitting to the _Times_, to be recorded and 'cast later. Because it's not a hundred per cent reliable, though, it makes its own audiovisual record, so if any of what I was sending didn't get through, it could be spliced in after I got back. |
| Technovelgy from Four-Day Planet,
by H. Beam Piper. Published by Not known in 1961 Additional resources -
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This is similar to an idea being implemented by police in the UK; see head cameras concealed in their uniform headgear.
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