
Local people used their sponges to communicate across long distances: a message spoken into one of them would be exactly replayed when the recipient squeezed it appropriately.
These wondrous sponges, then, were unique cognitive tools, soaking up sounds, embodying particular acoustic signals in an unusually porous medium. They are strange objects to have had this cognitive and cultural role, even in an imaginary space of early modern European fantasy." –
from "Porous memory and the cognitive life of things", by John Sutton, in Prefiguring Cyberculture: An intellectual History.
зы: вот, кстати, инсайт - ни
Ещё одна зы - картинка взята с обложки журнала
да, чтобы не быть голословным, вот примеры человекожурналов, которые шэрят свои imaginary spaces -