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In the near-future world of Earth, oldsters (aka baby boomers) used electronic sun hats and True-Vu goggles to surveil young people and any other trouble makers.
The goggles would record whatever the wearer was watching, and then upload it to a secure location (in case anything happened).
Brin adds these comments later in the novel:
Today, of course, you can buy binoculars that have been integrated with digital cameras, letting you take a picture of whatever you see through the lenses.
As a means of surveilling a scene, and distributing the results, compare to spotcast from The Little Things (1945) by Henry Kuttner, the chest-lens from War Veteran (1955) by Philip K. Dick, newstaper gear from Flash Crowd (1972) by Larry Niven and fido from Riders of the Purple Wage (1967) by Philip Jose Farmer.
Compare also to magic spectacles from Pygmalion's Spectacles (1935) by Stanley G. Weinbaum, video glasses from Islands in the Net (1988) by Bruce Sterling, data goggles from Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson, eyecaps from Starfish (1999) by Peter Watts, overlay specs from Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross and HUD glasses from Daemon (2009) by Daniel Suarez. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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