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![]() Computers are an essential part of running the Todos Santos Independency, a single structure housing about 250,000 people just outside Los Angeles. Managers who require constant information are given implants that allow them to call up needed information from a computer system called MILLIE just by thinking about it.
It is not clear from the text how the authors thought the device would work. However, the use of such a device is explored thoroughly by the characters in a variety of contexts.
Compare to the artificial telepathy from We All Died At Breakaway Station (1969) by Richard Meredith.
An earlier reference to an implanted transceiver (not thought activated) can be found in Robert Heinlein's novel, The Puppet Masters, published in 1941. See audio relay. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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