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"The whole problem of energy sources is going to be solved by little solutions, not by some big new piece of technology that does everything. We got into this crisis by believing that we had one big piece of technology that would do everything (oil)."
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![]() In an age of affordable surgery to correct problems like short-sightedness, it was unusual for a person to wear corrective lenses. Much more unusual for the lenses to be implanted in the face, rendering the eyes permanently unreadable.
Why would a person choose such a modification? Molly, whose glasses I refer to, did choose to conceal much of her life in the course of her employment as razor girl.
When the Finn scanned her, said "Your glasses gimme the read they always have, low-temp isotropic carbons. Better compatibility with pyrolitics, but that's your business, right?"
In his blog, William Gibson has this to say about Molly's mirrorshades:
The character having emerged, very handily, in an early short story, when I hadn't been much concerned with this particular detail, and not having expected to see her again, I found myself, as more Molly narratives emerged, concerned by my inability to satisfactorily envision the way in which the damned things were attached. My solution to this, ongoing, was to keep the "camera" off that troubling little detail. To blur around it with language. The "mirrored implants" worked wonders for the character, in fact largely *were* the character, but there was never, really, any "really" there.
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