From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 00:58:29 MST
It appears as Digital Cutup Lounge <subbass@netvigator.com> wrote:
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|How could body modifications prevent boredom? Even if you and your partner
|kept changing yourselves constantly, it wouldn't make you any more imaginative
|or creative, I wouldn't think...
Body modifications could prevent boredom by altering the brain chemistry so
the brain would find almost anything interesting. I believe Bruce Sterling
invented a substance called Green Fire in Schismatrix [Plus?] which did this,
so Abelard Lindsay could focus on terraforming Mars (which would naturally
take _some_time_).
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