 Why is there a microphone in Craig's hotel room?
Flight Officer Robert Craig surrendered the tube containing his service record tapes and stood waiting while the bored process clerk examined the seal. Craig obeyed the robot voice and began reluctantly to remove his flight jacket. It helps suppress certain physiological reactions to an entirely new set of conditions. On the eighth day, two attendants, who showed the effects of massive doses of PON to protect themselves from the centrifugal force, had to carry a man out of the tank. "How ... how do they know when you ought ... to come out?" The huge headquarters base centrifuge aboard the man-made satellite had gradually caused their bodies to respond once more to a single source of pull. "Not to Chociante, if that's what you mean.
 Terran society has become increasingly controlling of its citizens.
 Terran society has become increasingly controlling of its citizens.  The hotel manager bugs all the rooms to blackmail the guests.  Wyandotte put the microphone there to monitor Craig's adjustment to Terran society.  The Intergalactic Space Service put the microphone in Craig's room to keep tabs on him.