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Re: Wireless cyberpunk

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"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote:

>From Tad Williams’ _Otherland: City of Golden Shadow_
>(1996):

>I am almost certain that I saw the idea before that.  I’ve
>a dim memory of a setting in which people had wireless
>connections to an internet on steroids, with degree and
>quality of access dependent on wealth or status; losing
>access altogether was catastrophic. 

I think that 1981 is a bit more recent than the question was looking
for, but Oath of Fealty has wireless implants at about $2M each (would
be maybe $10 to $15M now with inflation).  But they're used mostly for
phone calls and information lookup, without the social networking we
take for granted now.  They seemed to have about a half mile range,
which is a bit further than WiFi gets us.
-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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