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Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical
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Date: 10 Nov 88 19:36:00 GMT
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Re: Dan Mocsny's Lady in the Boat

Bravo! What a marvelous way of making the point!

Now, what I'm curious about is: is anyone actually working towards this
stuff? I mean, it's seems to be obvious way to go (although my friend Alex
and I tend to argue about whether glasses or direct neural implants are
more likely...) But is anyone seriously thinking about it yet? I figure that
within the next 5-10 years, technology should have advanced enough to start
prototyping a crude version of this idea. Is anyone working on the
implications? For example, speculating on how to do textual input if, say,
speech recognition doesn't keep up with display technology? Doing away with
the keyboard paradigm in favor of simple, subtle finger movements? Figuring
what resolution one would need for an LCD to look decent at a 1/2 inch
distance? The sociological implications of computers becoming that portable?
This is fascinating stuff, and there certainly *should* be people thinking
about it...

(Followups should probably go to alt.cyberpunk, I guess; I'm on a notes
system, so I can't set the fields up...)

				-- Justin du Coeur