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"It was my preferred entertainment when I was a kid, so when I set out to be a writer, it was perfectly natural that I should write the sort of stories that I used to enjoy reading."
- John Brunner
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| Computational Textile | ||
| Wearable computer sensors. |
Liz Shen wore all the computer power she would need.
| Liz Shen's computational needs were handled by her clothes and the kernels of Borderline Intelligence packed into her minimalist jewellery. The clothes and jewellery drew their tiny power requirements from her movements. The computational textiles exchanged data with the environment via rapid subliminal alterations to their colour patterning, too brief to be picked up by the human eye... |
| Technovelgy from Pushing Ice,
by Alastair Reynolds. Published by Gollancz in 2005 Additional resources -
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Compare to the wearables from Vernor Vinge's 2006 novel Rainbows End.
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