Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!omepd!littlei!reed!mojo From: mojo@reed.UUCP (a slow 12-bar in A) Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Subject: Re: cyberpunk hardware Message-ID: <9167@reed.UUCP> Date: 3 May 88 05:06:08 GMT References: <371@smegma.UUCP> <399@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> Reply-To: mojo@reed.UUCP (a slow 12-bar in A) Organization: Grover Cleveland and the Electric Ark Lines: 10 At the risk of sounding like a heretic, I'll pose a question: why cyberspace? What could a consensual hallucination as a means of information exchange offer that couldn't be more economically provided by less flashy means (telnet, f'rinstance)? -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \A tautology is a thing \ Nathan Tenny / The opinions expressed/ /which is tautological. / ...tektronix!reed!mojo \ may not even be mine. \ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ FLAMES ANSWERED WITH NAPALM /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/