From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 23:09:59 MDT
Technotranscendence wrote:
>On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:39 PM Lee Corbin lcorbin@tsoft.com wrote:
>
>>Speaking of 'remastered races' and cloning, has any SF
>>author yet portrayed the poor clones as hunted fugitives?
>>
>PKD, John Varley, and, I'm sure, many others whose names escape me.
>Also, the films "Bladerunner" and "The Sixth Day" had just this.
>
X-men came close to this, altho the mutants were not actually clones.
The proletariat masses being uncomfortable with any humanoid with
any advanced or abnormal abilities.
It was educational to watch how much difficulty society has had
with something as trivial as cell phones. In a very weak sense, they
represent an enhanced ability to the user, a very slight advantage.
Schools wanted to disallow them, they were considered rude, etc,
even if the person did not speak loudly.
Shortly we will see wearable computers become practical. The
cell phone adventure of the past 20 years gives us a vision of what
it will be like to have a wearable, especially if we get good enough
with them to create a practical advantage over non-wearers. spike
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