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"We are all repositories for genetically-encoded information that we're all spreading back and forth amongst each other, all the time. We're just lousy with information."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Palm Flower | ||
| It's like a life clock. |
"Show me your hand, Logan," said the psyc doctor. Logan obeyed. "Do you know why you have this?" he said, tapping the palmflower with an index finger. "To tell my age," said Logan. "And how old are you?" "I'm six." And what happens when you are seven?" "It goes to blue... and I leave the nursery." |
| Technovelgy from Logan's Run,
by William Nolan (w/G.C. Johnson). Published by Unknown in 1967 Additional resources -
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The implanted palm flower changes color every seven years; yellow (age 0–6), then blue (age 7–13), then red (age 14–20), then blinks red and black on Lastday, and finally turns black at age 21 - state-mandated death.
Compare to the cardioplate from Harlan Ellison's 1965 novel Repent Harlequin, Said the TickTockMan.
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