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"I can't tell whether or not there's going to be a Singularity. I don't really believe the rapture of the nerds stereotype..."
- Charles Stross
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| Iron Collar | ||
| Persons designated as "Risks" must wear explosives. |
| "For they were Risks; and the iron
collars they wore contained eighty
grams of a high explosive. A step
into an area proscribed for Risks
(and such areas were common all
over the world) meant that a triggering radar beam would touch off
the explosive. Ryeland had seen that
happen once. He didn't want it to
happen to him..."
"The collar isn't a punishment. It's a precaution."
 (Explosive collar from "The Reefs of Space" by Pohl and Williamson)
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| Technovelgy from The Reefs of Space,
by Jack Williamson (w/F. Pohl). Published by If: Worlds of Science Fiction in 1963 Additional resources -
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In the movie Wild Wild West (1999), James West and Artemus Gordon attempt an escape:
Compare to the Badge of Office Explosive from A Ticket to Tranai (1955) by Robert Sheckley and the cyborg collar from A Specter is Haunting Texas (1968) by Fritz Leiber.
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