In a message dated 3/31/2005 3:55:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
VR is the next big deal.
...... the "wire-heads" ...... They'll be commonplace in 10 and ubiquitous in 15!
As a result, we will have the best damned fighter pilots and tank commanders
in the world, until Bots take over. This is one area where I am rooting for
MIT's continued dominance in the field.
Clearly, you never heard of the Dorsai.
Isn't it lovely how sex and war are the two dominant power plants for technological achievement.
Not only technology, but all of human history! After all, without sex, there would be no humans to have a history.
This speaks boldly for the USA to become the world's
greatest net exporter of marijuana. Keep the rest of the world high and happy,
while we get leaner, meaner, and shaper. This is what the digital revolution
is all about, Dr Susan.
Actually, the entire point behind wire-heads is that "Better Living Through Chemistry" (i.e. external chemical additives) will no longer be necessary to achieve enlightenment. One merely stimulates the appropriate regions of the brain with an electrical impulse ... Instant Nirvana.
Of course, there are those of us iconoclasts who will always require that our endorphins come in the form of Dark Chocolate and a nice Cab or Shiraz. ["No friggin Merlot!"]
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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