Re: Wireless cyberpunk

From	Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Re: Wireless cyberpunk
Date	2016-07-09 20:57 -0700
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On 7/9/2016 5:51 PM, Sjouke Burry wrote:
> On 10.07.16 0:30, Bill Gill wrote:
>> On 7/9/2016 11:46 AM, Greg Goss wrote:
>>> "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 $15M now with inflation).  But they're used mostly for
>>> phone calls and information lookup, without the social networking we
>>> take for granted now.  They seemed to have about a half mile range,
>>> which is a bit further than WiFi gets us.
>>>
>> That of course is one problem I see with implants.  How do
>> you upgrade to get a better implant?
>>
>> Bill
>>
> Update the software like M$ does with win10??   :)

Gives "blue screen of death" a whole 'nother meaning.

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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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