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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: Virtual Sex
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Date: 16 May 91 19:19:12 GMT
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hersh@exhume.lcs.mit.edu writes:

> Personally I prefer mine human, thanks. There is a lot more to sex than 
> just the physical act...
> ... just wanted 
> to point out that I think there are some things computers SHOULD never 
> be made to attempt.

Although the newsgroup name "virtual worlds" suggests the idea of replacing
"the real thing", that's not the only direction the technology could take.
Consider instead the use of computer and peripherals (and networking) as
an intermediary, as a communications device for the case where two people
can't be in the same physical location.

Multi-media teleconferencing at its best?
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.