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"People are choosing to allow television and Electronic Arts to do all their imagining for them."
- Peter Watts
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| Recording Radio | ||
| A handheld device that both recorded sound and transmitted it live to a remote broadcasting location. |
This literary device predicts the small gadgets that we use today to record pictures and/or sound, and then upload them seamlessly to a server.
| The camera case I was carrying was a snare and a deceit. Everybody knows that reporters use recorders in interviews, but it never pays to be too obtrusive about them, or the subject gets recorder-conscious and stiffens up. What I had was better than a recorder; it was a recording radio. Like the audiovisuals, it not only transmitted in to the Times, but made a recording as insurance against transmission failure. I reached into a slit on the side and snapped on the switch while I was fumbling with a pencil and notebook with the other hand, and started by asking him what had decided him to do a book about Fenris. |
| Technovelgy from Four-Day Planet,
by H. Beam Piper. Published by Not known in 1961 Additional resources -
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