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" I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's really something new, it's a new kind of civilization."
- William Gibson
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| Voice Dialing | ||
| Speak the name of the person and call them on the phone. |
Yet another aspect of Frederik Pohl's joymaker.
| If you have been called by any person, the joymaker wil have recorded the necessry ortho-name and identification spectrum. Simply ask the joymaker to call the person you wish to speak to. |
| Technovelgy from The Age of The Pussyfoot,
by Frederik Pohl. Published by Ballantine in 1966 Additional resources -
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