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"I went back to science fiction to try a few experiments …and my first experiment was a disaster…"
- Alfred Bester
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| Smart Wallpaper | ||
| Wallpaper that can sense your mood and provide an appropriate color scheme. |
| First they went to Decor Botanicals, where a team of five seniors was developing Smart Wallpaper that would change color on the walls of your room to compliment your mood. This wallpaper - they told Jimmy - had a modified form of Kirilian-energy-sensing algae embedded in it, along with a sublayer of algae nutrients, but there were still some glitches to be fixed. The wallpaper was short-lived in humid weather because it ate up all the nutrients and went grey; also it could not tell the difference between drooling lust and murderous rage, and was likely to turn your wallpaper an erotic pink when what you really needed was a murky, capillary-bursting greenish red. |
| Technovelgy from Oryx and Crake,
by Margaret Atwood. Published by Nan A. Talese in 2003 Additional resources -
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This also reminds me somewhat of the swibble, from Philip K. Dick's 1955 short story Service Call.
Take a look at the reactive wallpaper from John Shirley's 1985 cyberpunk hit Freezone and video wallpaper from A Deepness in the Sky (1999) by Vernor Vinge.
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