"Samuel R. Delany - Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" - читать интересную книгу автора (Delaney Samuel R)

ThatтАЩs when Special Services arrive. We have a couple of techniques that work remarkably well.тАЬ

тАЬYouтАЩre going to tell me about them, arenтАЩt you.тАЭ

тАЬThey work better that way,тАЭ she said. тАЬOne of them is hologramic information storage. Do you know
what happens when you cut a hologram plate in half?тАЭ

тАЬThe three dimensional image isтАж cut in half?тАЭ

She shook her head. тАЬYou get the whole image, only fuzzier, slightly out of focus.тАЭ
тАЬNow I didnтАЩt know that.тАЭ

тАЬAnd if you cut it in half again, it just gets fuzzier still. But even if you have a square centimeter of the
original hologram you still have the whole imageтАФunrecognizable, but complete.тАЭ

I mumbled some appreciative mтАЩs.

тАЬEach pinpoint of photographic emulsion on a hologram plate, unlike a photograph, gives information
about the entire scene being hologrammed. By analogy, hologramic information storage simply means that
each bit of information we haveтАФabout you, let us say-relates to your entire career, your overall
situation, the complete set of tensions between you and your environment. Specific facts about specific
misdemeanors or felonies we leave to Regular Services. As soon as we have enough of our kind of data,
our method is vastly more efficient for keeping trackтАФeven predictingтАФwhere you are or what you may
be up to.тАЭ

тАЬFascinating,тАЭ I said. тАЬOne of the most amazing paranoid syndromes IтАЩve ever run up against. I mean just
starting a conversation with someone in a bar. Often, in a hospital situation, IтАЩve encountered strangerтАФтАЭ

тАЬIn your past,тАЭ she said matter of factly, тАЬI see cows and helicopters. In your not too distant future there
are helicopters and hawks.тАЭ

тАЬAnd tell me, oh Good Witch of the West, just howтАФтАЭ Then I got all upset inside. Because nobody is
supposed to know about that stint with Pa Michaels save thee and me. Even the Regular Service who
pulled me, out of my mind, from that whirlibird bouncing towards the edge of the Pan Am never got that
one from me. IтАЩd eaten the credit cards when I saw them waiting, and the serial numbers had been filed
off everything that could have had a serial number on it by someone more competent than I: good Mister
Michaels had boasted to me, my first lonely, drunken night at the farm, how heтАЩd gotten the thing in hot
from New Hampshire.

тАЬBut whyтАЭтАФit appalls me the cacheтАЩs to which anxiety will drive usтАФтАЬare you telling me all this?тАЭ

She smiled and her smile faded behind her veil. тАЬInformation is only meaningful when it is shared,тАЬ said a
voice that was hers from the place of her face.

тАЬHey, look, I-тАЭ

тАЬYou may be coming into quite a bit of money soon. If I can calculate right, I will have a helicopter full of
the cityтАЩs finest arriving to take you away as you accept it into your hot little hands. That is a piece of
informationтАжтАЭ She stepped back. Someone stepped between us.