Re: PC--What is it good for?

"C.O. Jones" <apair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <rcqdnVSJPfIUXsLanZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Ken from
> Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "John" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:fjnr89$msb$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> > news:Lpqdna3txbw2xsLanZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > snip
>> >>>
>> >>> Watching "Minority Re****t" with the floating virtual screen
operated 
>> >>> by
>> >>> hand movements, my main reaction to it was that it looked like a
lot 
>> >>> of
>> >>> work, standing and waving your arms around all day.
>> >>
>> >> Laser pointer.
>> >>
>> >> Chair--with arm rests.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Are you suggesting these things as a way to make the interface less
>> > taxing?
>> > I don't think a laser pointer is sufficient, some of the interface 
>> > makes
>> > use of two hands working at once, and finger movements to perform
some
>> > operations.
>>
>> Lasers are built into rings or a glove--or the sensors could be built 
>> into
>> the arm rests.
>>
> In these new multibillion dollar fighter planes, don't they have "heads
> up" displays, and tracking devices that see where eyes are focusing,
> and even experiments with actual brain controls?
>
> Is anybody stupid enough to think that this technology will never
> trickle down to the home computer market?

The internet was originally a military project, DARPAnet.

-- Ken from Chicago