From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat May 16 1998 - 08:41:42 MDT
At 11:02 AM 5/15/98 -0700, Max wrote:
>A love detector that bleeps when the chance of romance comes near has taken
>the Japanese market by storm
Another success for sf extrapolation! Brian W. Aldiss described just such
a device in his ammusing 1961 novel THE PRIMAL URGE - except that in that
case it was wired to your forehead, and monitored circulating hormones,
surely the next step for Japanese with the yen.
Damien Broderick
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