Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: island!grenada!everexn!mike@uunet.uu.net (Mike Higgins) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Beyond active shields Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 89 23:22:12 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Everex Systems, Inc. Lines: 24 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu (daniel mocsny) writes: > >In article , mtuxo!ems1@att.att.com writes: >[ about emergency mind backups ] > >> You're assuming the Beacon needs to send a complete backup. It perhaps >I can see a great story line here (but it must surely have been done >already). Imagine someone who keeps getting blown away and restored, >and each time the destruction is serious enough to delete the >memory of how death occurred. The protagonist knows that (s)he keeps >getting killed and losing the memory of the week or so leading up to >it, but (s)he can't figure out how the enemy is getting away with it. The short story "The Phantom of Kansas" by John Varley, is situation almost exacly like you describe: The protagonist is killed several times and loses several weeks, so her insurance agency starts paying for backups more often. The officials are unable to figure out who is doing it, so she becomes her own detective and tracks down the "phantom" in an environmental park made to recreate the Kansas great planes ecology. Mike Higgins "Never trust a machine ...ucbvax!cogsci!well!fico2!everexn!mike you can't program"