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And if anyone could defend what was left of our rights, it was our own fierce Eleanor, of whom even the platoons of Canada geese who patrolled our neighborhood—the pit bulls, one might say, of the waddling world—were afraid.
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Of course, our house was automated—as all Surplus houses were required to be, by law—and
But we ignored it. For this was how the AutoHouse started, wasn’t it, with thermostats that sent to Aunt Nettie first data, then videos? Then came DroneDeliverers and FridgeStockers, KidTrackers and RoboSitters, ElderHelpers and YardBots, all of which reported to Aunt Nettie as dutifully as any spy network—recording our steps, our pictures, our relationships, and (back when
Why I do not have Siri.
As for the immediate result: the Nickelhoffs lost so many Living Points that their phone links were shut off and their zone-heat, too. Gwen and Eleanor made them blankets and sweaters; I fashioned for them a kind of messenger pigeon out of a yard-sale photo drone. All of which was a help, since their trial did not go well. Indeed, the Nickelhoffs were, surreally, Cast Off—set to drift on the high seas, with every harbor closed against them, for a month. Did they blame us, as Gwen later said they did, for Ondi’s misconduct? Did they believe we’d led her astray and were finally responsible for
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Contrast technoworld with medieval sweater knitting.
“There’s going to be a Team AutoAmerica, too, and programming! Hoopla!
Reading on Hoopla
“Very good,” I said. “And do you remember all that went by the wayside when corporations got defined as people? When they came to be protected under the Fourteenth Amendment?”
Law school uses trick questions about this. mitt Romney, Harvard Law School grad, missed that class and called corporations people
Also, now that we were just one league among many, we had needed a league name. And so we had become, despite Eleanor’s objections, Aunt Nellie’s All-Star Resistance League—the Resisters, for short.
How title is derived
