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Reps: 161,602 (power: 181) | | Originally Posted by Blackmarch  ya to a point .. I would definitley want a tamper proof buffer between it and the 'net tho.
Very true. She brings up hackers and the likes in the books. Plus the viruses would spread to the body...
Ooo...I just remembered the other thing I really liked about the brain ware, you could use it to control your health, so even though I'm Diabetic, I could use my brainware to automatically get myself insulin, in a way I don't remember because it's been too long since I read the book.
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14th February 2008, 09:16 PM
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Reps: 1,293 (power: 0) | | | IMO the most important future tech would be a clean, dependable, and almost-infinite energy source, be it ZPMs, or "merely" an early-stage Dyson sphere. If we have that, we have the luxury of building any other wasteful or expensive future tech we can think of. |
15th February 2008, 09:46 AM
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Reps: 22,093,396,603,335,756 (power: 22,093,396,603,356) | | Originally Posted by Nienor Very true. She brings up hackers and the likes in the books. Plus the viruses would spread to the body...
Ooo...I just remembered the other thing I really liked about the brain ware, you could use it to control your health, so even though I'm Diabetic, I could use my brainware to automatically get myself insulin, in a way I don't remember because it's been too long since I read the book.
Interesting. I Believe the ganwold's child trilogy also has a character who can hook up to what has evolved from the internet, and can do a lot of similar things and has to worry about a lot o fhte same things as well.
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oooh a dyson sphere .. that would be cool.
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20th February 2008, 07:52 PM
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Rama (although it has been a while since I've read that series).
I first heard about Rendezvous when I played the graphical
adventure game based on it for the Commodore 64.
(though I got much farther in the book(s) than in the game  )
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Reps: 22,093,396,603,335,756 (power: 22,093,396,603,356) | | Originally Posted by Darkseid I liked the mysterious alien technology inside Rama in Rendezvous with
Rama (although it has been a while since I've read that series).
I first heard about Redezvous when I played the graphical
adventure game based on it for the Commodore 64.
(though I got much farther in the book(s) than in the game )
Never knew they made a game of it 
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20th February 2008, 11:11 PM
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Reps: 2,601,423 (power: 2,608) | | Originally Posted by Blackmarch Never knew they made a game of it
Yes the game was made in 1984 for the Apple II and Commodore 64
Apparently there was also a Myst-like game called RAMA that was
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Reps: 22,093,396,603,335,756 (power: 22,093,396,603,356) | | Originally Posted by woden A food and drink replicator like out of Star Trek. So no more hungry people and no more greedy governments and thugs hi-jacking food shipments or bogging it down in red tape.
that would be nice tho I can see a very dark side to the use of matter replication technology.
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Reps: 56,897,222,442,323 (power: 56,897,222,449) | | Originally Posted by Blackmarch that would be nice tho I can see a very dark side to the use of matter replication technology.
Absolutely agree with you. There is nothing like new tech being hijacked for defensive and offensive purposes. So with that in mind can I have a spacecraft in the form of the USS Defiant to do a bit of "peacemaking" or "agressive negotiatiing" and a bit of sightseeing as well? | | |
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