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"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful."
- Philip K. Dick

Head-Molding Skincaps  
  Get a smooth pate without shaving.  

"I have brought skincaps that will mold themselves to your skulls, together with strips that will hide the superoptical patches--the eyebrows. You will wear them while with us. And of course, Tribesman Seldon, you will shave daily--or oftener if that becomes necessary."

"But why must we do this?"

"Because to us, hair on the head is repulsive and obscene."

Technovelgy from Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
Published by Doubleday in 1988
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