Re: The World Wide Neural Net & The Technomad

Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Sat, 5 Apr 1997 18:15:47 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Gregory Houston wrote:

> Something which might emerge before uploading becomes fully feasible
> would be some form of World Wide Neural Net. When we can directly
> interface wetware and hardware we should soon after be able to create
> implants to connect us to the Web via something like cellular phone
> service.
>
> Is anyone aware of any sci-fi which explores and elaborates on this
> idea?

Michael Swanwick, "Vacuum flowers", (1987). ciao,'gene