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- From: DRASCH@auvm.american.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
- Subject: Assistance Needed
- Message-ID: <92321.200039DRASCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:00:39 GMT
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- Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
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- I am reading Michael Benedikt's article: "Cyberspace: Some Proposals." In the
- article Benedikt coins and defines the term, "The princple of scale." Benedikt
- defines the term as, "the maximum (Space) velocity of user motion in cyberspace
- is an inverse, monotonic function of the complexity of the world visible
- to him."
-
- My problem is with the range of vision, is it possible for the eye and brain to
- actually process all of this information. Or is Benedikt saying that by this
- time the brain will be enhanced with other processors. Kinda of like Jordy's
- visor in StarTrek The New Generation.
-
- I fact, wouldn't that be the ultimate VR Screen. Have direct connections into
- the optical nerves? My problem again is with sensory overload of the brain.
- Now if the Visor has preprocessors that would que and buffer information to the
- brain. Then I could see Benedikt's point.
-
- Or then again, maybe I'm way off base?
-