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The Light of Other Days (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
The Light of Other Days - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter, Dick Hill (Narrator) The Light of Other Days tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudd... more »en and complete abolition of human privacy - forever. Then, as society reels, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. Nothing can prepare us for what this means. It is a fundamental change in the terms of the human condition. Read by Dick Hill Abridged, 4 cassettes, 6 hrs.« less
technomage - reviewed The Light of Other Days (Audio Cassette) (Abridged) on
Absolutely brilliant piece of speculative fiction. A lesson in man's adaptation to technology. An amazing invention turns society upside down, exploring (and exploding!) our concepts of privacy rights and the basics of what it means to be human.