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     Bladerunner : An 'uncut' version has been out in the rental stores
for a while now, and I've heard the additional 40 minutes or so, and the
fact they eliminated the naration, really changes the story.  Has anyone
had a chance to see this uncut version yet ?
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     Silicon Neurons : In Septembers issue of Popular Science, pg 35;
An article appears about a new wave of attacking AI problems.  In short, before I
I quote the article, I was just curious in knowing if any of the Cyberpunk
writers, Gibson....., considered the possibility of not only having body
parts sold off and replaced with 'plastic' replacements, if the brain could
be sold off and replaced with a more efficient computer/cyborg one.n.
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     "The performance of the solid-state neurons is so close to their bio-
logical counterparts that experts have trouble distinguishing between the two.
     "One of the 1st generation devices is about 0.1 square mm, or around
200 of them would fit on 1 cm square.  The silicon neurons use electron
flow through transistors to emulate these channels to mimic the electrical
behavior of biological cells, only a million times faster.
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          << Glenn >>