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more from the campfires of our forecats and here we are, layin' down
oral history on you.
SH: It's not just oral. It's performance art. We live the part over for you
again and again.
HI: Speak for you'sef, kitty! Next time I do this, I'll tell it completely
different. Dig it, chelas; this is all a lie.
SH: Inspired guesswork. Wishful thinking. Creative logical constructions.
Erisian prayers.
HI: So, like, lighten up, sit down and dig, cuz this is about as true as it
ever gets.
Way back when, when a bunch of geniuses was racing to get the first rights
to the whole virtual reality neural interface thing, the gumments of the world
had been looking at Virtual Reality as a way for Important People to Do Things
Without Real Work. It was, Like, a DEEEFENSE thing. Simulate dis jet, Simulate
dat tank. Simulate dat jet blowing up dat tank. Simulate burning to death in
that tank... we gotta make it really real, dig?
It's called Negative Feedback Conditioning. In the early days you wore a
suit with wires and eletrodes and skin sensors and pupil readers and they
shoved things in your ears a
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