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"We didn't have a telephone and our family until I was about 15, in high school."
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The peeper is a small, handheld device with thirty-nine knobs; it is used as a "trigger mechanism to set loose the greatness and the beauty and the horror that lay within the user's brain."
Simak returned to this idea repeatedly; see also the Dimensino from his 1961 novel Time is the Simplest Thing and the virtual shooting range from his 1963 novel Way Station.
Readers might also be reminded of the visi-sonor from the 1964 Asimov novel Foundation and Empire and the empathy box from the 1964 Philip K. Dick short story The Little Black Box. The immersive home video from Steven Spielberg's 2002 movie Minority Report is an impressive visualization of a similar idea. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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