Part 4: How Computers Expand Our Senses
CHAPTERS
CHAPTER 14 HOW WE STAY IN TOUCH
CHAPTER 15 HOW A COMPUTER CREATES VISIONS
CHAPTER 16 HOW COMPUTERS TICKLE YOUR EARS
Gargoyles... wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society.
—Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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