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Re: Wireless cyberpunk

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On 7/8/2016 6:32 PM, Joseph Nebus wrote:
>         My love mentioned how you could really tell some near-future
> cybershenanigans story was written in the 80s or 90s because they all
> figured we'd have to jack in to stuff.  Plug in your phone, your
> keyboard, your brain.  Wires everywhere.  My love asked how everybody
> missed wireless.
>
>         So I would like to explore my ignorance here.  Who *did* have
> the insight that while cyberspace might be great, cyberspace over Wi-Fi
> was better?  Who used the idea well?  Who used it in superficially
> plausible but in retrospect hilariously bad ways?
>
>         (I will accept a broad concept of Wi-Fi.  Yes, I have read
> 'The Machine Stops'.)
>

For Marvel's cyberpunk-influenced 2099 setting, there was one character 
who special ability was his capacity to function perfectly normally 
while remotely accessing the VR net all the time.  While I wasn't all 
that impressed, he WAS sorting out two totally separate sets of sensory 
impressions all the time.

In Ghost In the Shell, the cyborgs communicate pseudo-telepathically 
with each other using Wi-Fi.

Of course there's an inherent problem in using wi-fi in a cyberpunk 
setting.  Cyberpunk is usually paranoid.  Any person who is using using 
wi-fi is advertising his location to anything in the vicinity that has 
radio-scanning capability.

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Wireless cyberpunk nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2016-07-09 00:32 +0000
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-07-09 04:18 +0000
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-07-09 09:24 -0400
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-07-09 11:11 -0400
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-09 16:23 +0100
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-07-09 04:59 +0000
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-07-09 02:49 -0400
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-07-09 10:46 -0600
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> - 2016-07-09 17:30 -0500
        Re: Wireless cyberpunk Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2016-07-10 02:38 +0300
        Re: Wireless cyberpunk Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2016-07-10 02:51 +0200
          Re: Wireless cyberpunk Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-07-09 20:57 -0700
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-07-11 09:30 -0700
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk Stephen Allcroft <stephenallcroft@lycos.co.uk> - 2016-07-19 08:46 -0700
        Re: Wireless cyberpunk Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-19 20:23 +0100
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-09 01:08 -0600
  Wireless cyberpunk Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2016-07-09 06:12 -0700
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-07-09 19:25 +0000
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> - 2016-07-09 08:22 -0500
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-07-21 10:00 -0700
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-07-21 18:14 -0700
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-07-09 10:41 -0600
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2016-07-10 14:52 +1000
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-07-10 20:31 -0600
        Re: Wireless cyberpunk Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-07-10 21:27 -0700
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-07-09 18:11 -0500

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