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"I don't know why I write science fiction. The voices in my head told me to!"
- Charles Stross
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| Voice-Enabled Smartphone | ||
| A smartphone capable of complete voice-enabled operation. |
Take a look at the article for the joymaker for more information about this remarkable, prescient idea.
| "Self-programming" means that the programmed software includes procedures for translating most normal variations of voice, idiom, accent, and other variable modalities into a computer-oriented sim-script and thence into the mathematical expressions on which the computers operate. As long as your personal joymaker is within reception range of your voice, you may communicate via other shared-time transponders if you wish. |
| From The Age of The Pussyfoot,
by Frederik Pohl. Published by Ballantine in 1965 Additional resources -
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