From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 22:23:23 MDT
At 12:26 PM 9/6/02 -0700, Ross F. wrote:
>I wonder when is the first use of the term "feelies" which are
>whole-sensory immersive environments or interactive direct neural
>playbacks.
1932. Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD. `There's a love scene on a bear rug;
they say it's marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced.' This idea has
been around a long time, in general terms: E. M. Forster's `The Machine
Stops' years before that, in 1909.
Damien Broderick
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