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memfree@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

See the voice-activated 'joymaker' from The Age of The Pussyfoot , by Frederik Pohl, 1966: http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1026

If you can imagine a combination of telephone, credit card, alarm clock, pocket bar, reference library, and full-time secretary, you will have sketched some of the functions provided by your joymaker.

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stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
… Pocket bar? Googling it gets me nowhere. Surely he didn’t mean a bar of alcoholic drinks? Maybe a pocket pry bar?

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- memfree@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You were right the first time. It dispenses meds, stimulants, intoxicants and so on from reservoirs within it.
  
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  - stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It says a lot about the culture of the 60s and/or Pohl himself, that the first conceivable use for “instant ordering” would be for drugs.
    
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