Kyra Davis, not quite on the run yet but needing to avoid attention and to wear less conspicuous clothes, enters a tailor's shop. We all know what happens in tailors', right? Wrong. The live clerk explains that the equipment is obsolete and the programming out-of-date. In the design room, Kyra, stripped and measured, projects images onto a life-size hologram of herself. She keys in alterations which are adapted while the computer modifies patterns to fit. Kyra buys several items, listed on p. 77.
The price exceeds the cash in her possession so she must debit her account even though this becomes another clue for the Sepo if they do start to check her movements. This "on the run" motif continues for quite a long way into the novel which however eventually soars beyond it.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
By the standards of OUR time this "obsolete" tailor's shop is far more advanced than anything we have! People who go to OUR tailors' shops still need to be personally measured by actual, live tailors who then cut, measure, and sew together the required clothes from bolts of material. NO holograms or computerized programs manipulating machines which does the measuring and cutting, etc.
Ad astra! Sean
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