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> occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section No eye tracking in this dystopia I guess.
by grog454 4mo ago
> occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section
No eye tracking in this dystopia I guess.
- GS523523 4mo agoWas going to reply the same. These authours don't spend enough time thinking their fantasies through.
- cindyllm 4mo ago[dead]
- fc417fc802 4mo agoAt the time it was published eye tracking would have come across as rather over the top (IMO) despite being a predictable outcome if you gave it some thought. Plus it would have necessitated adding and explaining cheap AI analysis, all the follow on plot impacts that would have, and would have ruined that scene as written. So I'd say that conveniently omitting it was a wise choice. Can be easily handwaved away if you assume some toothless anti-surveillance legislation outlaws employers from engaging in eye tracking while failing to ban all the other stuff. That's not even an unexpected real world development at this point.
- rrrhys 4mo agoThe book is from 1992.
- Cytobit 4mo agoLiterally the next two sentences describe eye tracking. > The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading.
- arwineap 4mo agoI took that to be referencing the occasional page ups in the document he was describing Not as a new mechanism of tracking, via eye tracking Could be wrong.