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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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| Onionskin Transparent Jeans | ||
| See-through pants. |
| We wended our way through a half-kilometer of racks and hit upon the Onionskin outlet... Women, tired and aggrieved, were plowing through the brand's signature transparent jeans, hanging like rigid, empty skins in the center of the Retail space. |
| Technovelgy from Super Sad True Love Story,
by Gary Shteyngart. Published by Thorndike Press in 2011 Additional resources -
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See also the variably-transparent plastirobe from Philip K. Dick's 1954 short story Sales Pitch.
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