"Paul Di Filippo - Seeing is Believing" - читать интересную книгу автора (Di Filippo Paul)

"Is this like some kind of computer dictionary? What do I do?"

"Push button here."

The teller depressed the indicated control.

Instantly a series of whirling alien glyphs, phantasmagorical in their variety and motions, flooded the
color screen. When these icons cleared they were followed by a compressed digital movie, flickering
at a subliminal rate. Fewsmith had carefully crafted the loop out of snippets from an old industrial
training film that depicted stacks of cash being removed from a drawer and passed through a teller's
slot.

The clerk seemed staggered for a millisecond by this mini-movie, but quickly recovered, his faculties
apparently undisturbed. "I'm sorry, sir, but this screen's blank. Your machine must be broken."

Handing the device back, the teller reached into his cash drawer and removed a half-dozen fat stacks
of banded cash. His hands seemed to be operating independently of his consciousness, as if two
separate personalities shared his brain and body. The effect was disconcerting even to Fewsmith,
who had witnessed it before.

Passing the money to Fewsmith, the teller said, "Thank you, sir. Have a nice day."