Overview
Intimation Technology is a fictional 1985 cyber romance paperback in Current Affairs. It is written by Mackenzie Campanelli and published by Cybrex Computer Books. Its cover shows a coiffed, shoulder-padded young woman at her desk holding champagne while a man grins from the screen of an Apple Lisa.
The book follows Jean through her network-computing career and romances in early anonymous internet communities, ending with the possibility that she will marry a man named Marez.
Role In The Novel
Calvin Munn finds Intimation Technology in a vintage shop and buys it for a dollar. He reads it in one sitting and later searches for Mackenzie Campanelli online.
Calvin finds Campanelli’s obituary and cries over the discovery. The paperback becomes one of the private works that shapes Calvin’s sense of technological romance, dead authors, and unrealized imaginative worlds.