Re: [TML] Virtuality and its Social Consequences (long) Phil Pugliese 16 Sep 2015 08:09 UTC
-------------------------------------------- On Tue, 9/15/15, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] Virtuality and its Social Consequences (long) To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 4:25 PM On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Kenneth Barns <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: * I suspect that "Medical Fast" drug use is going to be much more frequent than "Medical Slow" as outlined in the LBBs. In the 1970's "recovery" from various injuries and ailments was seen as a passive process, where one waited until you were better. Now, rehabilitation is _much_ more active; I can't imagine that "fast-forwarding" the rehab process would offer any medical advantage. I've started "reading" the E. C. Tubbs Dumarest series as audiobooks. And I must say that the second one (Deria) is a bit disappointing. Tubb's "fast drug" is a lot different from what I expected. Rather than lying in a medically-induced coma, high passengers use it to experience the very long trip as only a few subjective days while awake. Tubb puts in the occassional reference to odd effects, such as holding someone up against a wall for "most of an objective day" and thus risking injury to the muscles in the holding arm. Yet gravity and inertia seem to operate largely in matching extra-slow time, since his characters don't have to deal with objects or their own bodies moving too [subjectively] quickly. -- Richard Aiken --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah, I always felt that the difference 'tween the 'medical' fast/slow drugs & the 'non-medical' versions was a little, well odd but I can see a purpose for regular 'slow drug' (combat) &, 'medical fast drug' (patient is going downhill fast). As a PC I always carried some 'med slow', if possible, but never used it & I don't recall ever encountering the use any of those drugs. If I had a choice, I'd much rather take the 'fast' & then go to sleep (coma) then experience life moving in slo-mo w/ all sorts of things whizzing around me. p.s. One thing about VR that appeals to me is that I might finally have the opportunity to explore the universe a la StarTrek, etc.! =================================================================================================