Significance of The Bejeweled Head Computer Terminal.

The bejeweled head is "an intricately worked bust, cloisonny over platinum, studded with seedpearls and lapis" (p. 98). It is a computer terminal with a complex mechanism that allows it to talk, not with a voice synthesizer, but with a complex series of gears, bellows, and pipes, a sort of clockwork automata. It was commissioned by Tessier-Ashpool S.A. and is the physical link between the Wintermute mainframe and the Neuromancer mainframe.