>>The remote-access computer transponder called the "joymaker" is your most valuable single possession in your new life. 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. -- The Age of The Pussyfoot, by Frederik Pohl. Published by Ballantine in 1966

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