- noun informal
- A bone-conduction implant used for discreet telecommunication.
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- Hinterlands
- noun
- A telephone able to place calls across time and space.
- Origin
- Derived from tempus (time) and phone (sound).
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- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- noun
- An entity or phenomenon which harvests and consumes information, particularly information about itself.
- Origin
- Meme, a unit of cultural information transmitted from one mind to another.
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- There Is No Antimemetics Division
- noun
- Specialised animal tissue bred to transmit signals over long distances.
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- The Crucible of Time
- noun
- A mutable, foldable, transparent plastic which can display images and text.
- Origin
- Abbreviation of ‘information’ and fiche (a card).
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- A Memory Called Empire
- noun
- A state of neural communion attained by a group of people using artificial implants.
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- Great Wall of Mars
- noun
- A device that allows instantaneous communication over any distance.
- Origin
- Contraction of ‘answerable’.
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- Rocannon’s World
- noun
- An encapsulated message sent over a digital communications network.
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- The Girl Who Was Plugged In
- noun
- A personalised newspaper containing only news items in which the reader has expressed an interest.
- Origin
- Abbrevation of ‘homeostatic newspaper’.
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- Ubik
- noun
- A device for sending and receiving wireless voice communications.
- Origin
- Formed from the prefix piezo- (relating to piezoelectricity) and phone (sound).
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- Gateway