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| Moddy | ||
| A plug-in personality module; a firmware device that gives the user the personality desired - ROM to your brain's RAM. |
This device is different than a microsoft, or a chip with a specific skill. It seems to impart not merely information, but an emotional bias that colors the movements, intonation and every other nuance of behavior.
| "My name is Bond," said the guy. "James Bond." As if there could be any doubt. "He's wearing a James Bond module. Thinks he's James Bond. He'll be pulling that trick all night, until someone raps him down and pops the moddy out of his head. |
| Technovelgy from When Gravity Fails,
by George Alec Effinger. Published by Arbor House in 1987 Additional resources -
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Nice piece of humor; you can imagine the variations.
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