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"...being predictive, being right about the future, is not the point of any given story or novel. The point is about exploring as wide a range of possibilities as possible."
- Peter Watts

Live Memo  
  A paper memo or short letter that reads itself and can even argue with or exhort its reader.  

Once more he picked up the memo, squeezed it, and it instantly whined "... this opportunity presents EME with an acute challenge, Nat... Eh, Nat?"

"Yes," Nat Flieger said, nodding absently, replying to Leo Dondoldo's voice.

The memo was trying to sell him on that, too. "...everybody knows that Kongrosian has up until quite recently played before private gatherings," the memo declared fervently... "

He answered the memo. "I'll handle it, Mr. Dondoldo..."

"Whee," the memo exulted. Nat Fleiger felt sympathy for it.

Technovelgy from The Simulacra, by Philip K. Dick.
Published by Ace in 1964
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Compare this idea to the talking tape from Distraction (1998), memo-voice from War Game (1959), the e-sheet from Darwin's Children (2003) and the talking pamphlet from do-it-yourself (1974).

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