JOI's life and E.T.A.'s founding — "a patented fortune in rearview mirrors…"
a patented fortune in rearview mirrors, light-sensitive eyewear, holographic birthday and Xmas greeting cartridges, videophonic Tableaux, homolosine-cartography software, nonfluorescent public-lighting systems and film-equipment
Context
Carlisle reads the patent list as a concordance of the novel's own image-systems: rearview mirrors (the A.F.R.'s road-mirror terror; n.167's "rearview-mirror fortune"), light-sensitive eyewear and nonfluorescent lighting (the family's fluorescence-aversion tell), holography, videophonic Tableaux (the videophony excursus), homolosine cartography (the map-elimination idiom) — JOI's commercial optics quietly forecasting the book's motif catalog before any of it happens. His reading, recorded not adopted.