At 8:31 PM -0400 06/11/2000, Matt Grimaldi wrote:
>Gord Sellar wrote:
>> Neat idea: maybe the amount of processing necessary for the first real-life
>> stimulus portals (like a gleisner bot in Egan's polis stories) would be
>> rare. Imagine a whole community of people "skinriding" as one by one they
>> go for a walk. Stim in, but no controls out till it's your turn. A whole
>> different experience of self and community. Weird.
>
>That sounds similar to the trick the old guy tried in "Being John
>Malkovich."
Right, except no incantations, oy? Wow, I forgot about that movie. Was good. :)
Gord