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" I sometimes suspect that we're seeing something in the Internet as significant as the birth of cities. It's really something new, it's a new kind of civilization."
- William Gibson
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| Self-Cleaning Gym Suit | ||
| Removes the source of odor. |
| He got himself a better DVD player, a gym suit that cleaned itself overnight due to sweat-eating bacteria, a shirt that displayed email on its sleeve while giving him a little nudge every time he had a message, shoes that changed colour to match his outfits, a talking toaster. |
| Technovelgy from Oryx and Crake,
by Margaret Atwood. Published by Nan A. Talese in 2003 Additional resources -
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Compare to the fabricules from The Diamond Age (1995) by Neal Stephenson and bio-fabrics from Say Goodby to the Wind (1970) by J.G. Ballard.
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