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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,alt.cyberspace,alt.cyberpunk.tech,news.groups
Subject: Re: Cyberpunk/space/tech/virtual-reality
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Date: 14 Dec 89 19:35:28 GMT
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In article <14973@well.UUCP>, bluefire@well.UUCP (Bob Jacobson) writes:
> 
> As I told him in email, I think Tom Maddox mischaracterizes those
> actually working on virtual reality.  More than most technologists,
> they are aware of the possible magnitude of the consequences of
> this technology and, almost without exception, are clear on the
                              ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
> point that they are working to prevent its use in inhumane ways.
> ...

Even the Navy people in Hawaii? (see the december Scientific American).
Even the defense contractors doing that pilot helmet?
Even the people who program flight simulators for the Air Force?

Even if it doesn't have the Virtual Reality label on it, it's still the
same technology.

markz@ssc.uucp