Memobilia: The Mobile Phone and the Emergence of Wearable Memories
Anna Marie Reading · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2009
In the science fiction novel Woman on the Edge of Time , first published in 1976, Marge Piercy envisaged a future society in which the characters would have ‘kenners’, mobile communication and personal memory prosthetics strapped to the wrist and connected to a world wide electronic network. In March 2006, Piercy’s kenner, in effect, became a reality when Nokia announced its 4G mobile phone designed to strap to the user’s wrist. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.