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From: carl@harlie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Input device
Message-ID: <542@harlie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 21:20:16 EST
Article-I.D.: harlie.542
Posted: Wed Jan 28 21:20:16 1987
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Summary: Larry Wall goes cyberpunk

lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall):
...all things not possible by today's technology as far as I know deleted...
> Alternate text input by analysis of sound, when desired.
Could this be done, just pointing a mike at your instructor and everything
coming down on your screen?  Never mind the fact that they speak with a lisp
and a thick German accent and are saying "Time flies like an arrow".
> Pointing input by looking at what you want to point at.
Can digitisers work that well, assuming you have a small camera?  Feed what
the camera sees to the screen, then capture it once you have it focused right.
Anyone think a computer could make sense out of handwriting in chalk on a
dusty board?
> I/O to camera and projector is probably via a small infra-red laser on your
> eyelid.
Could you transmit data via an IR laser over to other students' computers?
Say you beam Joe's computer with a question across the room...  or would it
be better just to have the things all hooked into a small VAX and allow
them to communicate via Ethernet?
> Okay, that's the spec.  Who wants to implement it?
I don't know but I think William Gibson will want one.
								Carl
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