Dragaera

I just had a thought

Mon Dec 16 10:05:23 PST 2002

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:06:01AM -0800, "J.Jasper" <jsjasper at attbi.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but extracting information from an unwilling participant is 
a lot easier to portray on screen than constant, pervasive 
psionic communication.  They are different problems.

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