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"We follow the scientists around and look over their shoulders. They're watching their feet: provable mistakes are bad for them. We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
- Larry Niven
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| Personalized Fashion Display | ||
| A set of displays that show you dressed in different uniforms. |
How to persuade new recruits? Try showing them what they would look like as they rose through the ranks.
| "...Why look like that when you can look like this?
Bill's eyes followed the thick finger as it pointed to the colour plate in the book where a miracle of misapplied engineering caused his own face to appear on the illustrated figures dressed in trooper red. The sergeant flipped the pages, and on each page the uniform was a little more gaudy, the rank higher. The last one was that of a grand admiral, and Bill blinked at his own face under the plumed helmet, now with a touch of crow's feet around the eyes and sporting a handsome grey-shot mustache, but still undeniably his own. |
| Technovelgy from Bill the Galactic Hero,
by Harry Harrison. Published by Unknown in 1965 Additional resources -
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Note that this description also includes modifying the facial image to include predicted aging.
Compare this to the kinetiscope appliance, an animated 'fashion-plate' from H.G. Wells' 1899 classic When the Sleeper Wakes.
The phrase 'fashion-plate' was a photographic plate or other illustration showing clothing; the phrase was later used to describe a person who dressed ostentatiously - like someone in a picture in a magazine.
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