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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
- George Orwell
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| Wristband Viewer | ||
| A device for viewing aerial surveillance images that fits on your wrist. |
Mark Marakson wants to keep an eye (in the sky) on things. He can control aerial surveillance devices, and see what they can see, using his wristband viewer.
| The giant mechanical bird deposited Mark Marakson on the hilltop. Mark brushed back the soft green sleeve of his upper garment and pressed several buttons on the wide bracelet he wore upon his left wrist. The bird took flight again, climbing steadily. He controlled its passage with the wristband and saw through its eyes upon the tiny screen in the bracelet's center.
 (Wristband viewer from Changeling) |
| From Changeling,
by Roger Zelazny. Published by Ace in 1980 Additional resources -
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Aerial surveillance has been around for at least a century and a half; in science fiction, you can go back to at least the 1928 Ray Cummings novel Beyond the Stars; see the Raytron Apparatus.
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'...lifted themselves to skimming flight upon whirling helicopters."
'Twenty rocket tugs towed it from its Earth hangar out into space.'
I don't need it to go fast, it just needs to amble along.
'The program raced up the screen one scan line at a time, subtly smoothing, deleting and coloring.'
'... a sound tape to supply the noise'
'The spotter descends, and we think it searches the vicinity, looking for the victim's face...'
