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Would you get a datajack?
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Ecclesiastes
post Oct 13 2004, 10:12 PM
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Scientists gingerly tap into brain's power.
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post Oct 13 2004, 10:31 PM
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My initial response was, "in a heartbeat," but then it struck me: what if I have the gift?
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post Oct 13 2004, 10:38 PM
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yep, that thought struck me as well, in about the same order.
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post Oct 13 2004, 10:43 PM
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Being a computer geek: Yes. I couldn't give a frag less if I Awakened/Goblinized (causing much stress on the 'jack). The benefits far outweight (at the moment) the drawbacks.
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post Oct 13 2004, 11:23 PM
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I have to say I would do it as quickly as we could be sure my brain wouldn't explode. after that, as quickly as I get the money, who needs that essence anyway.
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Tal
post Oct 13 2004, 11:25 PM
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Hell, we might not even need to go under the knife. I'd be quite happy with just 'trodes...
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Edward
post Oct 14 2004, 12:08 AM
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Offcourse you are not poling a random sample of the community. RPGrs are high on the geek scale and so are datajacks.

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post Oct 14 2004, 02:34 AM
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It's worth the risk.
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post Oct 14 2004, 02:38 AM
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Yes. The risks are worth it. Unless I'm a mage...
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post Oct 14 2004, 02:45 AM
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I don't care if I'm a Mage or not, give me the damn datajack. Give me two, maybe even four.

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post Oct 14 2004, 02:45 AM
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So you use a little magical ability. Big deal.
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post Oct 14 2004, 02:50 AM
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QUOTE (Edward @ Oct 13 2004, 08:08 PM)
Offcourse you are not poling a random sample of the community. RPGrs are high on the geek scale and so are datajacks.

Edward

Speaking of which, the solitary 'no' vote came from a friend of mine. I'm not very happy with her right now.
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post Oct 14 2004, 03:04 AM
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I'd get one, but I'd probably end up getting something stuck in it.
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post Oct 14 2004, 03:08 AM
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Yeah, a datajack sure sounds nice until you develop your first case of jack itch. ylech.
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post Oct 14 2004, 03:37 AM
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Heh, I voted "No" as well, and I'm a geek at heart. So much so that I know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the keyboard is the One True Way, and all these newfangled inventions of convenience, like mice, will only serve to make people lazy. :P

No, not really. I've just been under the knife once in my life for unnecessary surgery already, and I refuse to do it again until they can do it without having to slice open my head again. Trodes are fine until then. :)
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post Oct 14 2004, 03:50 AM
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QUOTE (Eyeless Blond)
No, not really. I've just been under the knife once in my life for unnecessary surgery already, and I refuse to do it again until they can do it without having to slice open my head again. Trodes are fine until then. :)

Do you mean to say that you've already had your braincase cut open -unnecessarily-? :eek:
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post Oct 14 2004, 04:17 AM
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Is this a question of whether I'd get a datajack if SR was reality, and it was that easy and simple, or whether I'd consider something equivalent in real life?

If the former, then probably yes.

If the latter... I'm more or less a biologist, and I took enough neuroscience to say "Are you out of your fucking mind?" to that... Unless I end up a quadruplegic for some reason - in that case, cut away...
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post Oct 14 2004, 04:47 AM
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QUOTE (blakkie)
QUOTE (Eyeless Blond @ Oct 14 2004, 03:37 AM)
No, not really. I've just been under the knife once in my life for unnecessary surgery already, and I refuse to do it again until they can do it without having to slice open my head again. Trodes are fine until then. :)

Do you mean to say that you've already had your braincase cut open -unnecessarily-? :eek:

No, just my eyes. I have albinism, and one of the complications of that is a thing called nystagmus, a condition where your eyes move back and forth uncontrollably. The root cause is something to do with the optic nerve, but back in the 80s one of the treatments was to rearrange some of the muscles in the eyes. Studies showed later on that the surgery doesn't really help all that much. Hence, unnecessary surgery where my head was cut open. :P

Essentially, I'm just saying that brain surgery is a really *really* big step. To do it for something as cosmetic and unnecessary as implanting a digital I/O device I pretty much relegate to the realm of fiction, probably forever, but at the very least for the next 50-100 years. By then I'll be too old to want *anything* in my head, let alone a piece of superfluous hardware. :)
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post Oct 14 2004, 05:33 AM
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In real life, I doubt I would get a datajack until such time as there were lots and lots of compatable things that I could control via DNI, in which case it would be sufficiently cool.

However, one thing I can say with some certainty is that, if I had the money to do so and had read enough to know that the risks were minimal, I would *totally* get a sleep regulator.
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post Oct 14 2004, 05:40 AM
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Heck yes! Give me a proto-Cyberdeck and watch me go.

Of course, I'd probably wind up a drooling idiot from some unseen complication...
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post Oct 14 2004, 05:44 AM
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Heh I voted "no" myself. I'm big into audio engineering and music - don't really need the equivalent of the Matrix yet...and with me tapped into the artist side of things, I have a feeling I'd be a Mage :)
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post Oct 14 2004, 05:53 AM
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QUOTE (Bob the Ninja)
Of course, I'd probably wind up a drooling idiot from some unseen complication...

It's not an "unseen complication" if you've ever seen someone playing Everquest or any of the other MMORPGs. How someone can spend 8 hours camping a spawn spot looking for the dropped item so they can finish a decorative chair continues to elude me.
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post Oct 14 2004, 11:32 AM
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I'd get a datajack in a heartbeat. If I turn out to be awakened, well so I've lost something I never knew I had.

Would I get a cyberarm? Yes. Would I get wired reflexes? Yes. Would I get pretty much anything and everything I could? Yes.

There's a line in Robocop 2 where 'Johnson' turns to 'the old man' and says "I've never met anyone who'd want to be a robot."

Well, that's cos he never met me... and I am deadly serious. Flesh is weak, so long as I have my mind, science can replace the rest.
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post Oct 14 2004, 12:35 PM
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I recently went to a lecture on this topic in Pittsburgh. Seems the only real problem now is how long the probes placed into the brain can stay before the brain walls them off. Top time in monkey subjects who control robotic arms is only 3 weeks!
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post Oct 14 2004, 01:36 PM
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I'd sell my right arm for a datajack. Then I'd get a cyberarm with an internal cyberdeck!

Seriously, I've told my wife she can get a tattoo when I can get a cyberarm. I would accept a datajack in its place.
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