When we can get datajacks in our brains so we can download books and have them scroll across the insides of our eyelids, I'll be first in line.
Note from someone who knows a bit about the real-life future: Sorry dude, that ain't happening. NDI technology, introduced a few decades after the Dominion War, will be abandoned because of the sheer volume of biological and ethical complexities involved. The technology will exist, but the complex psychotronic safeguards necessary to keep people from ending up in the ER with psychic shock won't be developed until late this century at the very earliest. If I were you, I'd stick to reading screens.
If they get some halfway-decent life-extension programs going, I may be around for the end of the century. I don't expect it'll be that long-I'm not talking about "integrated with the brain" jacks, just ones connected to the jaw muscles for subvocalized commands, with a "screen" that projects to the eyeballs (or probably at first, to the inside of a pair of sunglasses that connect to the jack next to the ear).
I hate to bust your bubble, but not even that's going to happen. Most standardised interfaces a few decades from now will be either "flat window" holographics or the same old stuff we have now. Besides, that ocular projection stuff can really damage your eyes. (The Network will try it during the war, and some of their soldiers will nearly go blind.)
i think the concept of ebooks is really cool, but to me there's nothing like holding a paperback or hardcover in my hands and inhaling that new-book scent! (:
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Note from someone who knows a bit about the real-life future: Sorry dude, that ain't happening. NDI technology, introduced a few decades after the Dominion War, will be abandoned because of the sheer volume of biological and ethical complexities involved. The technology will exist, but the complex psychotronic safeguards necessary to keep people from ending up in the ER with psychic shock won't be developed until late this century at the very earliest. If I were you, I'd stick to reading screens.
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i think the concept of ebooks is really cool, but to me there's nothing like holding a paperback or hardcover in my hands and inhaling that new-book scent! (:
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