| From: | Peter Coxon <coxoff@***.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: 2000 leagues v1.1 |
| Date: | Tue, 5 Nov 1996 23:26:48 UT |
>[with Gurth's comments]
And the other Tim's
>>
>> > Couldn't you use some sort of Hearing amp built for the eyesof course it
>> > doesn't have to be the eyes, I am trying to design some sort of bioware
based
>> > on the dolphins sonar.
>>
>> That'd be a major rebuild of the skull, if you ask me. Dolphins send out
>> sound pulses with some organ in their foreheads, and receive them with
oh bugger
<SNIP>
>> less the same comment as above, I think. The character would get a
>> new sense that requires extensive learning to use.
>
>I agree with Gurth, if you make it BIOWARE, the user has to learn to deal
with the >new
>sence from the ground up..it might take major neural work for the brain to be
able to
>handle the input. I mean, the receptors are one thing, but the wetware that
has to
>interpret the signals also has to be incorporated into the brain.
'Extensive' might be
>putting it mildly.
>
>With CYBERWARE, you can just put in a little processor that will do all the
work >and
>spit the output onto a retinal display or something. A whole lot less work.>
Okay then it seems that bioware can only realy include passive systems then,
but (this might sound a biut lame but anywho) Currently people who loose legs,
arms, etc get prothetic replacments, and they have to re learn how to wlak
with out much control in their limbs, and another thing there is currently
this thing going round is this biofeedback thingies we people learn to kill of
things like aids by having a counter thing showing how well they do when the
cells start to die they have worked out the technique and then they just learn
how to redo it, apparently this guy in america cured himself of aid using
this technique (ooh that going to be flamed isn't it! :) ) I can't quote my
source as I can't rember what it was from (horizon possibly, uk thing), any
way it took this guy about 6 months to work out how to do it and other 6 to
cure himeself. and by my reackoning with all the advanced tech in 2057 it
should be to hard to repeat the process, it would still take a while, but
shorter time
>I'd stick with leaving it strictly Cyber.
Pah!
>Other stuff sounds cool though (I snipped it because someone kept nagging my
>about
>including the whole message...:) )
wasn't me :)
>-Zim
Tim (not the other one)
Ps. I am wearing fire proof boxers and am braced for a flaming!
