Re: Deep Rescue: Will a shuttle float?

Pat Flannery (flanner@xxxxxxxxxx) writes:
Henry Spencer wrote:

Of course, books can be distributed electronically. However, Baen Books
has consistently found that making their books available electronically
*increases* sales of the paper versions.

The paper ones still have them beat as far as comfort of reading goes,
as was pointed out by Andre.
But for how long will that be the case? What if you could download a
spoken version of the book from some sort of small storage system that
you actually have inside of you and connected to your auditory nerves
that you can download works you are interested in to, and then access
them by just saying their name out loud, or merely thinking it.

You mean, like books on tape ? I note that they're not exactly setting
the world on fire...

How do you skim such a thing, if you are looking for one secific
point from the source ? You can FF, but while you do that, you don't
know what you're skipping over...

I'll skip the telepathy thing, as having any such changes so much
about being human, that I find that making predictions about such
a fundamental change in what being human IS, isn't possible.

Illustrations could be sent directly to your optic nerves in the same way.
Okay, I'm floating into William Mook territory here, but think of what
this could mean...all the Cherry Poptart comics narrated by Pamela
Anderson going directly into my brain, while the illustrations, now 3D
and zoomable, appear before my eyes!

Two words: " Internet Porn ".

And just think of Xaviara Hollander's "The Happy Hooker" done the same
way, as she and that German Shepherd dog do the wild thing.
I see a bold new age here...and I see it from above, below, behind, and
in slow motion "Cano-Orgasmavision". :-P

Woof !

Andre

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