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I love how movies show hacking devices as super serious futuristic goggles the open 6 different terminals that patch you through sockets on satellites, but the best thing in real life is a dolphin tamagotchi.

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Which in turn may be a reference to the time when a movie showed an actual dolphin as a hacking device: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OM59U4-z0

It's a reference to the story that inspired the movie.

> The prototype of our character is the cyborg dolphin Jones from the story "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson.

It was either a dolphin or Keanu Reeves...

Seriously Keanu Reeves ins't a bad choice for a technological automaton representation, being Johnny Mnemonic and Neo and all. Though I guess dolphins in general are much more conciliatory on IPs, trademark and copyrights issues.

We need to put Keanu Reeves in the public domain!

You could make the argument that it's further a reference back to "Day of the Dolphin"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069946

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