Suddenly, DeVaul looked as though he had lost control of his eyes, which appeared to be gazing at the ceiling. His left hand was hanging at his side, but the fingers of that hand were flittering over his Twiddler as he typed in information from the card he held in his other hand. His attention, it soon became clear, was focused on the display screen in front of his right eye. When a fellow borg is typing on his Twiddler, he said, other borgs have learned to pause and wait for the information to be recorded. DeVaul, once he had snapped back into the conversation, said it was like watching people wearing headphones and listening to a Walkman, oblivious to their surroundings.
Cell phones are another example.
People think nothing of it, Weaver said, when a person's pocket starts to ring. By the time the fashion show started that afternoon, hundreds of people had come to Booth 3633. The plastic chairs were full so most people stood up, craning their necks as the beats of technomusic thundered through the exhibit hall. The model was followed by dozens more, each wearing slim, portable devices. Some were simply concept designs.