Re: YASID: getting punished in advance, skimming memories [was Re: Time warp]

"Dan Goodman" <dsgood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

>John wrote:
>> There's also a short story concerning the future of humanity where
>> one man starts up a machine that causes perfect healing in people,
>> the downside of which is everyone loses their memories overnight.
>> They all have some device that records their memories and downloads
>> them all in the morning, the tricky part being to convince themselves
>> in the morning that they need to.

>James Blish, "The End of Summer."

>There are other downsides.  Getting drunk or high only lasts a very
>short while.  And pregnant women _stay_ pregnant.

	There's a bigger problem.  Think of the poor women giving birth 
the day of that perfect-healing machine's startup.  

	On the other hand, think of the longitudinal studies one could 
do with tens of thousands of genetically equal people, each one day 
younger or older than their siblings, marching through life.  

-- 
								Joseph Nebus
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