Matthew Hunter wrote: > > 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. > The whole point of the complicated plot twist in Jhereg was that they didn't have time to get the information via torture. Or drugs. Or anything other than sucking the information straight from his brain in a matter of a split second. To me, the point is moot because I'm far more interested in why the books should *never* be made into movies than debating how they could.