From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 13:26:00 MDT
I wonder when is the first use of the term "feelies" which are
whole-sensory immersive environments or interactive direct neural
playbacks. The word is derivative of "movies". I first saw the term in
Piers Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant", and just recently I read the
term mentioned in one of Frank Herbert's short stories in "The Book of
Frank Herbert" anthology of short stories in "The Nothing", published
1973. Before that I had only read of Herbert his "Dune" series which I
think is very well done. I've read most of Anthony's sci-fi novels.
I've read "Snow Crash", should use underscores instead of quotes to
indicate underlining or italics of book titles. Heh, Hiro Protagonist.
I've read a lot of Asimov, some Heinlein, Clarke. I've read the Star
Wars trilogy as books but never got into those "series" books, yeegh.
Maybe a hundred or more various science fiction novels' pages have
passed before these eyes, I've posted before to extropians about science
fiction, speculative fiction. Virtual reality in some form always made
sense, in being immersive simulation. Television hits the two major
senses.
"War: what is it good for?"
Fiction and myth has long had extra-sensory and out-of-body experiences,
including dreams.
Ross F.
On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 12:50 AM, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Since the late 80-s practically every sf novel has had virtual reality
> in
> it. IMHO the best VR novel is _Snow Crash_ by Neal Stephenson, simply
> because he understands the technology.
>
> What about the earliest cases?
>
> Vernor Vinge's _True Names_ is a portal story of course (internet *and*
> VR). Orson Scott Card's _Ender's Game_ 1977 is another early "VR"
> story. And Ray Bradbury's _The Veldt_
> (http://www.veddma.com/veddma/Veldt.htm) is from 1950...
>
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