The technological basis of his invention was the method of photo-optic sound recording used in cinematography ... which made it possible to obtain a visible image of a sound wave, as well as to realize the opposite goal¡ªsynthesizing a sound from an artificially drawn sound wave.posted by crayz at 8:04 AM on June 19, 2011 [5 favorites]
"Lem drives recklessly, like most Polish people. He sits very close to the steering wheel, gestures as he drives, and curses the other drivers on the road as he passes them."Never would have imagined.
"¡it's also hard to place nationally, like 'Gibarian', 'Sartorius', or indeed 'Kelvin'."Speaking as someone who read a fair bit of Soviet science fiction, it wasn't actually uncommon to give characters futuristic, international-sounding names (Yefremov's Andromeda being a great example). I think it appealed to the dream of a bright socialist future when ethnic and national boundaries would blur and people of various ethnicities would freely collaborate and communicate with each other. It's also very common in Strugatsky novels, etc. You get a lot of teams made up of "the Uzbek," "the Ukrainian," and so on.
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