Dragaera

I just had a thought

Mon Dec 16 10:06:01 PST 2002


Matthew Hunter wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:56:21AM -0800, "J.Jasper" <jsjasper at attbi.com> wrote:
> > Matthew Hunter wrote:
> > > The obvious way would be to understand how psionics are being
> > > used as an analog, rather than to directly map them.
> > > Remember, what Dragaera calls "psionics", we call "cell
> > > phones"...
> > Daymar would disagree.  His skill at psionics was a key plot point in
> > Jhereg.
> 
> Read about how police want (and in some places, already have) the
> capability to trace the location of any given cell phone at any
> given time?
> 

Accessing someone's memory is not equivalent to listening in on a cell
phone call.  My communications over a cell line may be tapped, but
hacking into my brain is still (thankfully) in the realm of science
fiction.