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From: stadler@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: who does it... // State of the art today?
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 18:23:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 18:23:28 1987
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Reply-To: stadler@apple.UUCP (Andy Stadler)
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In article <3055@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:

>Me, all I want to do is to be able to talk to you by packet radio that
>way.  Then the alt.cyberpunks can muscle into misc.psi and show those
>wimps how telepathy is really done.  

This brings to mind another book...  I don't think you could call it
cyberpunk but it does have direct brain-cpu connectivity.  That would be 
"Oath of Fealty" by Niven & Pournelle.  The Todos Santos high-mucky-mucks 
had special neural transcievers.  Actually, anybody could get one, but
(a) they were bery-bery expensive, and (b) use of the mainframes was limited
by a fairly straightforward access control scheme.  (like getting hold
of a password).

Occasionally the protagonists would use it for rudimentary telepathy:

"Computer, tell so-and-so that I want to see them" 

and the computer would forward the message.  The interesting part was when 
two "wired" people put their transceivers in "forwarding" mode and proceeded
to make love by way of telepathic communication!!!!

--Andy Stadler