| From: | John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Matrix Activity |
| Date: | Sat, 30 May 1998 21:22:46 -0500 |
writes:
>How much do most people interact witht the Matrix on a day-to-day
>basis? I don't mean decking, or jacking in ... or possibly not even
>direct interaction ... Like are the trid signals broadcast or sent
>through the matrix?
I'd guess that trid broadcasts are probably sent through the airwaves and
through the Matrix, though it's debatable as to which is the primary or
preferred broadcast medium. Main reason is for reaching folks out in the
boonies or in case the 'Trix goes down. That particular guess ought to e
taken with a liberal grain of salt, btw:)
>Is radio still around? and if so in what form?
>(ie is music sent through the `trix? If so it's probably like MTV) I
>imagine broadcast radio is still around otherwise you'd need to
>install a satlink interface in order to get tunes in your car ...
Broadcast radio would also be important for emergency purposes: It's
relatively low-tech and you can get lots of range (given a powerful
enough antenna, natch). Besides, moving images inside of the car is
distracting already. no reason to make them even more distracting.
<snip on phones: celphones would still have a range problem, though)
>are there still print newspapers or do you
>just download the latest issue into your pocket secretary? (Can you
>imagine a newspaper heavily laden with hypertext links, mpegs/vrmls,
>wavs/midis/mp3s, plus hi res pics?) Also how often would the paper
>come out? I doubt it would be hourly, but do you think there'd be an
>morning, noon, and evening editions? (probably each edition would be
>much "lighter" but overall would cover more ...)
The daily paper is probably still around. The particularly large papers
probably still put out a paper edition (if you're willing to pay for the
cost of printing out the news on dead trees:)), but I would expect that
lots of people pick up subscriptions to digital new services that send
them information that interests them (does everyone read the arts section
of the paper? or the business section? or sports? etc).
>BTW, as a side note:
>What is the typing speed for someone jacked in in 205x?
>On Page 9, of VR2.0, Have Deck-Will travel posted a 111 word comment
>0.11 seconds after someone else, making his "typing" speed at least
>60,545 words per minute (how's that for looking good on your
>resume?)...
>
>Btw, the post contained 627 characters (including spaces, and a
>carriage return + another carriage return to send the post) making
>that 342,000 characters per minute.
Oh, *I* can do that (and if you believe that, I might have some real
estate you'd be interested in;)
>You know what's really scary? the really fast deckers are most likely
>the ones without normal timedate stamps ... and prolly "type" *MUCH*
>faster than this!
Oh, the glories of the direct neural interface: my guess is that those
guys didn't bother to type much of anything: they just thought and told
the deck to send:) Heh... I could probably send messages off pretty fast,
too, if I didn't have to worry about how well I spelled anything in the
message:):):)
--
John Pederson "Reality is a greasy beast"
aka Canthros, shapeshifter-mage --Colin P. Hill
lobo1@****.com canthros1@***.com john.e.pederson@***********.edu
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