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From: maddox@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: who does it... // State of the art today?
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Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 04:54:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  4 04:54:09 1987
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As far as the interfacing goes, I was at the Superconductors panel at
Westercon 40.  One of the things brought up was SQUIDs:  Superconducting
Quantum Interference Device, I think it is.  The thing is a VERY sensitive
instrument for detecting electrical activity through the usual induction
principles.  They found that you get around 200 milliseconds of free will
between when you decide to perform an action and when it happens.  A monkey
with a SQUID headset was punching numbers randomly on a keypad, and a computer
correlating the input was able to tell which button it would push.  I assume
it would be different for everyone to get things mapped out, though...  And,
of course, once they can read what's going on in your mind, they can then
write using induction:  ZAM!  Your optic nerve is overriden and your visual
centre gets the direct input.  Imagine suntools where you just think at each
window to come forward, close, et cetera..  (I'm still slobbering over the
Sun, given that I usually work with 80286's..)  If anyone has any more recent
data than this July, post!

I feel it worthwhile to mention an organization:  Cyberpunk International.
Send $3.00 to 	Cyberpunk International
		P.O. Box 2187
		Sunnyvale, CA  94087

Dr. Odd, our founding member, will be glad to have more members.  I
suppose I should type up all the signup stuff but I'm too tired.  So far
we've our second newsletter out.  Cyberpunk International is basically
a link-up place for cyberpunks to put articles and things..  It's mainly
in the South Bay with a few of us here in Berkeley and San Francisco, but
the faster it spreads the better.  Well, I gotta get some down time.  If
anyone knows any substitutes for sleep besides caffeine or uppers, I'd love
to know...  (60-hour work weeks, yum!)
								Carl
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