On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Bruce Johnson <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2015, at 6:34 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <schwartz.jeffrey@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Article I'd been working on for Freelance Traveller... but got creeped out by and never really finished.
> Parts are relevant, I think
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i809pu4G-iUvGOMdAg7zGsvE6pqDvweH8Fzn-ojgf4A/edit?usp=sharing
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> Title is "Battle Dress User Interface at Higher Tech Levels”

This is reminiscent of the kind of cyber interfaces in Samuel Delany’s “Nova”; where factory functionality, for example, was mapped to a controller’s body. They built things with their 'hands’ and ‘kicked’ the finished, packaged, transportable  objects out to the docks with their ‘feet’.

This is also similar to some cyberpunk tropes about people getting addicted to cyber enhancements and ‘cyber psychosis’.

Hence the reason I was starting to get a bit creeped out by it. 

A lot of the writing I do, I'm describing things I'm pretty vividly imagining in full 5-sense mode.

Things like that article lead to sensations that are troublesome.