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"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content."
- Theodore Sturgeon
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| Tongue Mouse | ||
| A pointing device using input from the tongue. |
| A small heads-up display mounted below the chin projected data abstracted from the video the bot had captured before being fried. Griff found the white and pink map distracting and switched it off using his tongue mouse. |
| Technovelgy from Quantico,
by Greg Bear. Published by Vanguard in 2007 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Ullran enunciator from Uller Uprising (1952) by H. Beam Piper, the dental switchboard from The Stars My Destination (1956) by Alfred Bester and Tongueprint Verification from Fleet of Worlds (2007) by Niven and Lerner.
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