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** Olhado's mechanical eyes aren't quite yet possible, but we can be sure that within five years of the first, very obviously mechanical version that we get, there will be ones that aren't easily distinguished as such from a distance. Also, even today, no one in their right mind would insert the plug in the other eye socket rather than at the side or back of the skull.
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** Olhado's mechanical eyes aren't quite yet possible, but we can be sure that within five years of the first, very obviously mechanical version that we get, there will be ones that aren't easily distinguished as such from a distance. Also, even today, no one in their right mind would insert the plug in the other eye socket rather than at the side or back of the skull.skull, or even simply have wireless data transference.
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* DolledUpInstallment: Was intended to be an original novel but Card was trying to think of a reason why the protagonist ended up on Lusitania. He decided the hero would be Ender from the ''Literature/EndersGame'' novella and rewrote it as a novel.
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* DolledUpInstallment: Was intended to be an original novel but Card was trying to think of a reason why the protagonist ended up on Lusitania. He decided the hero would be Ender from the ''Literature/EndersGame'' novella and rewrite it as a novel.
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* DolledUpInstallment: Was intended to be an original novel but Card was trying to think of a reason why the protagonist ended up on Lusitania. He decided the hero would be Ender from the ''Literature/EndersGame'' novella and rewrite rewrote it as a novel.
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* DolledUpInstallment: Was intended to be an original novel but Card was trying to think of a reason why the protagonist ended up on Lusitania. He decided the hero would be Ender from the ''Literature/EndersGame'' novella and rewrite it as a novel.
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* ExecutiveVeto: OSC allowed ''Ender's Game'' to become a movie, but not ''Speaker of the Dead'', which he finds unfilmable due to alternating between "talking heads and unbearable violence". MarvelComics was still allowed to do [[http://marvel.com/comics/issue/37140/orson_scott_cards_speaker_for_the_dead_2010_1 a comic out of it.]]
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* ExecutiveVeto: OSC allowed ''Ender's Game'' to become a movie, but not ''Speaker of the Dead'', which he finds unfilmable due to alternating between "talking heads and unbearable violence". MarvelComics Creator/MarvelComics was still allowed to do [[http://marvel.com/comics/issue/37140/orson_scott_cards_speaker_for_the_dead_2010_1 a comic out of it.]]
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* ScienceMarchesOn: Xenology. In part thanks to books like this one, the xenologer's assumption [[spoiler: that piggies have similar biology to humans (a pivotal part of the story)]] would scarcely be considered at all. In fact, even the study of the piggies would probably be avoided, given advances in remote probes.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: 3000 years in future and the world hasn't changed much.
** Right at the end of the book, Miro is very impressed by the AI's unique capability of... auto-completion.
** The fact that the xenologists have no unobtrusive recording devices. We already have cameras attachable to eye-glasses, shouldn't be too hard to place a couple in their clothes or wherever.
** Olhado's mechanical eyes aren't quite yet possible, but we can be sure that within five years of the first, very obviously mechanical version that we get, there will be ones that aren't easily distinguished as such from a distance. Also, even today, no one in their right mind would insert the plug in the other eye socket rather than at the side or back of the skull.
*** Olhado mentions that he could have opted for binocular vision instead of the socket, but decided on the latter. As it is, he sees everything as a flat image with people appearing as cardboard cut-outs.
** The concept that a husband and wife can automatically gain complete read access to all the files of their mate, even the very important ones pertaining to their job, is rather ridiculous from today's information security standpoint. Of course, one must remember that they were living in a Catholic Mission colony in which marriage was still a high sacrament with lots of strings attached.
** Likewise the concept of a team of a handful of people doing the work of dozens (Xenologists and Xenobiologist both) is completely ridiculous. As mentioned above in ScienceMarchesOn, it's unlikely that Xenologists would even be allowed to make contact, due to great advances in remote probes.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: 3000 years in future and the world hasn't changed much.
** Right at the end of the book, Miro is very impressed by the AI's unique capability of... auto-completion.
** The fact that the xenologists have no unobtrusive recording devices. We already have cameras attachable to eye-glasses, shouldn't be too hard to place a couple in their clothes or wherever.
** Olhado's mechanical eyes aren't quite yet possible, but we can be sure that within five years of the first, very obviously mechanical version that we get, there will be ones that aren't easily distinguished as such from a distance. Also, even today, no one in their right mind would insert the plug in the other eye socket rather than at the side or back of the skull.
*** Olhado mentions that he could have opted for binocular vision instead of the socket, but decided on the latter. As it is, he sees everything as a flat image with people appearing as cardboard cut-outs.
** The concept that a husband and wife can automatically gain complete read access to all the files of their mate, even the very important ones pertaining to their job, is rather ridiculous from today's information security standpoint. Of course, one must remember that they were living in a Catholic Mission colony in which marriage was still a high sacrament with lots of strings attached.
** Likewise the concept of a team of a handful of people doing the work of dozens (Xenologists and Xenobiologist both) is completely ridiculous. As mentioned above in ScienceMarchesOn, it's unlikely that Xenologists would even be allowed to make contact, due to great advances in remote probes.
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* ExecutiveVeto: OSC allowed ''Ender's Game'' to become a movie, but not ''Speaker of the Dead'', which he finds unfilmable due to alternating between "talking heads and unbearable violence". MarvelComics was still allowed to do [[http://marvel.com/comics/issue/37140/orson_scott_cards_speaker_for_the_dead_2010_1 a comic out of it.]]
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The job description for a Speaker for the Dead is to do historical and narrative research into the dead person's life, and then get up at the funeral and tell the deceased's life story-as ''they'' would've told it. OSC reports that people have started to do this in RealLife, and that it is [[TearJerker just as powerful]] as you might imagine. He allegedly wants someone to speak at his funeral.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The job description for a Speaker for the Dead is to do historical and narrative research into the dead person's life, and then get up at the funeral and tell the deceased's life story-as ''they'' would've told it. OSC reports that people have started to do this in RealLife, and that it is [[TearJerker just as powerful]] as you might imagine. He allegedly wants writes in the introduction that he hopes someone to speak will Speak at his funeral.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The job description for a Speaker for the Dead is to do historical and narrative research into the dead person's life, and then get up at the funeral and tell the deceased's life story-as ''they'' would've told it. OSC reports that people have started to do this in RealLife, and that it is [[TearJerker just as powerful]] as you might imagine. He allegedly wants someone to speak at his funeral.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: The job description for a Speaker for the Dead is to do historical and narrative research into the dead person's life, and then get up at the funeral and tell the deceased's life story-as ''they'' would've told it. OSC reports that people have started to do this in RealLife, and that it is [[TearJerker just as powerful]] as you might imagine. He allegedly wants someone to speak at his funeral.funeral.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: OSC's Mormon mission trip was to Brazil. Lusitania is a colony made up of Brazilians.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: OSC's Mormon mission trip was to Brazil. Lusitania is a colony made up of Brazilians.
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