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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
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Cell phone companies now offer this service. You can speed dial friends by using a name that is familiar to you ("Sue") to mean a specific data entry for your cell phone ("Susan Smith 777-888-9999").
This is yet another feature of the amazingly prescient Joymaker, the must-have PDA from this same story about a totally networked society.
I don't think that cellphone companies thought of offering this before the 1990's; can anyone think of an earlier reference? Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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