NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/cyberspa/962

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From: [e-mail] (Will be President for Food)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: Re: Coding Space (Was: Re: Benedikt's Cyberspace)
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Date: 28 Jan 93 23:12:27 -0600
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In article <AfNlVTO>, "William C. Hulley" <[e-mail]> writes:

> you will not, imho, find a better way as long as you think of cspace as,
> well, spatial. we (humans) have become incredibly efficient processors
> of visual and aural data, so why screw with what works?

mrrph?! surely you mean, "why NOT use what already works..." why try designing
fantasy cyberspace "tech" custom-imagined for use with thought systems to which
our minds are NOT already accustomed? this sounds like throwing the baby out
with the bathwater.

> so why not focus on the interface building problem and assume, for
> now, that we think of cspace as a space because it works?

because, it would seem, such "technology" is *SO* far beyond our current means
to build and comprehension to grasp (ask a neuroscientist) that it amounts to
practically LESS than idle speculation, IMHO. whatEVER the interface, when it
is designed, it will be designed to interact with the Net that exists then.
that Net will have been built upon the ideas being expressed NOW. it'd be a
shame if the neurohacks finally came UP with an interface and only found "wildly
useless speculations on what a cyberdeck would be like" to navigate
around.........

.rez