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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
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This also reminds me somewhat of the swibble, from Philip K. Dick's 1955 short story Service Call.
Take a look at the reactive wallpaper from John Shirley's 1985 cyberpunk hit Freezone and video wallpaper from A Deepness in the Sky (1999) by Vernor Vinge. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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