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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Electro-Binox | ||
| Binoculars with electronic focusing. |
| I donned my gloves and mask.
The latter, with its silver arabesques, makes me look like
Death the Witchdoctor.
Through the electro-binox I watched another of the huge towers, in which cyborged Mexes do their mysterious work. I recalled Federico’s pantomime and the “dig and delve” chant, and I found myself shivering at being near a 40-kilometer Hole up which — my childish imagination insisted — the dragon of gravity might crawl and come to hunt me down, suck me from any hiding place and crush me flat against him. |
| Technovelgy from A Specter is Haunting Texas,
by Fritz Leiber. Published by Galaxy Publishing in 1968 Additional resources -
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Take a look at these Sony DEV-5 Digital HD Binoculars.
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