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"As opposed to illiteracy, where you can't read, aliteracy means that you can but you just can't be bothered. They say aliteracy is on the rise these days."
- Peter Watts
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| Digital Ink License Plate | ||
| License tags that can change both state and number in the blink of an eye. |
Slick implementation of this idea with near-future technology. How can you alter your license plate without leaving your car?
| Gragg motioned with one black-gloved hand... Gragg's digital ink license plates flicked from California to Oregon vanity tags that read GECCO... |
| From Daemon,
by Daniel Suarez. Published by Dutton in 2009 Additional resources -
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When I read about this, I immediately thought to the same idea implemented with futuristic 1941-style technology in Robert Heinlein's novel Methuselah's Children; see the entry for alterable license number.
I seem to recall that 007 had something similar, but with a rotating "drum" of plates, in the 1960's.
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