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From: bluefire@well.UUCP (Bob Jacobson)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,alt.cyberspace,alt.cyberpunk.tech,news.groups
Subject: Re: Cyberpunk/space/tech/virtual-reality
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Date: 21 Dec 89 18:03:05 GMT
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Touche, Mark.  Yup, there are those who see in new technology only
better ways to conquer and destroy.  Even with VR.  But at least
the discussion is out in the open.  And will remain so.  A bigger
fear for me, bigger than the dwindling defense establishment, is
the use of VR for pummeling the public with commercials and media
pacifiers.

To each, his or her own favorite boogeyman.
-- 
BOB JACOBSON, Associate Director, Human Interface Technology Laboratory
       University of Washington (FU-20), Seattle, WA 98195 USA
   (206) 543-5075 (voice), 543-5380 (fax)   *   bluefire@well.uucp
                >> "We can do virtually anything." <<