| From: | Brian Johnson <john0375@****.TC.UMN.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Meat Drones (on for 5 dollars a day!) |
| Date: | Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:21:52 -0600 |
> What you remove is the
> prefrontal cortex.
>
> I don't think they would make fantastic killers (I think wired-reflexes wouldn't
> transmit well over the remote gear, and skills requireing concentration or planning
> would be piss-poor), but they could fit in anywhere (assuming you didn't leave
> huge scars on their foreheads...)
Okay, has anyone else out there seen this before?
I.E. in Catspaw, by Joan D. Vinge?
If you haven't read the whole book, you can read the opening 'teaser' on
the inside front page, because it dealt with this concept.
I'd also put in that you don't need to perform any surgery.
Just put in a Datajack, and take advantage of the RAS Cutout of a
cyberdeck.
"Reticular A___ System"
(the nerves that, I guess, make the body move, which are blocked from
firing while the RAS overide is in effect. See VR 1.0 or 2.0 for more,
but they make it possible to take advantage of the response increase and
reality filter INITIATIVE advantages of the cyberdeck. )
They you could just feed in a body control program through some other
input ( radio, subdermal feed, etc.) which would transmit across the RAS
override and you have your drone. Getting any sort of video/sense
information to base feedback on would require more work (like a Sense
Link with internal transmitter, but no big.)
Without the video/sense information, you could still tape the victim into
a suit that would give you information on where the body is located (like
a hot suit from Synners, Pat Cadigan) and that should suffice in most
cases, unless you're trying to do fine manipulation tasks (like pick
locks, turn knobs, etc.) or gross manipulation (pushing filing cabinets).
Do something like penalize quickness by four (from the victim's stat) and
require a quickness test for most tasks.
Done.
