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"If we're going to be consistent and advocate freedom of speech we have to advocate freedom of encrypted speech too. The genie is out of the bottle, cryptologically."
- Neal Stephenson

Memory Biochip  
  An implanted device that permits the user to 'play back' selected memories.  

"Lieutenant Illyan also has an eidetic memory biochip. You may think of him as a recording device with legs, which the Emperor may play back at will."
Technovelgy from Shards of Honor, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Published by Baen Books in 1986
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