From:	Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject:	Visionary, or crazy?
Date:	Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:14:52 -0500

From: Sommers
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:22 AM

> Not to mention the fact that the professor is trying to add a
> sense to his nervous system to give him sonar. He wants to use
> it to be able to move around in the dark. How about all of the
> people who are blind that have to rely on seeing eye dogs to
> get around, or can't at all?

You make a good point. There are devices out there that are designed to let
the blind move about with greater independence, but since I haven't done any
research on the topic in, oh, seven or eight years, I don't know how far
they got marketing them. (I exchanged some mail with the designer of one
such device, that utilized GPS satellite transmissions, but I don't know if
he ever got backing to market the thing.)

> If I have to choose between a guy who wants to try something that
> sounds crazy but just might revolutionize the way we live, and a
> sane guy who wants to make an existing widget go 5% faster, I'll
> take the crazy guy. Their the ones who change the world.

Amen.

--
Patrick E. Goodman
remo@***.net
"I'm going to tell you something cool." -- Gene Wolfe