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== Tabletop Games ==
* One of the aesthetics in ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'' is called "Pod People." The corebook mentions an editorial cartoon in a Genius-run magazine supposedly depicting the standard Pod People [[Death Ray]]: its description sounds like an iPod with its controls replaced by a single button labeled "KILL."
* The Tau Empire in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' combine this with [[Crystal Spires and Togas]].
* ''[[Traveller]]'' fits this to a T with illustrations of computers looking almost exactly like twenty-first century ones. Justifiable in that after you have miniaturized past a certain level user friendliness, fashion and aesthetics will become a premium. Maybe you can someday put several terrabytes into a datadisk the size of a dime but a human still needs to interface with it comfortably, so it is hard to picture computers designed to communicate directly with a human instead of just another computer being smaller
* ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' has this, because any object not physically implanted or worn has to be usable by everything from ordinary humans to uplifted squid. As a result, everything is palm-sized, made of smooth cream-coloured plastic, lacks corners or sharp edges, and more than likely doesn't even have buttons, since you can operate most things mentally.
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