The stories listed that it could be used to detect anomolies in the body and release certain drugs. The stories also listed that it can basiclly answer yes or no questions.
It seems pretty practical to me that it could relase some morphine if I stub my toe.
I for one found this interesting. If you look beneath the surface, you see a glimpse into history of what was actually being used to train our soldiers during the cold war.
We may live in a world now where this level of application is laughable, but look at the fact that during the 80's this was cutting edge.
With this in perpective, this game was probably much more advanced than the training programs used by the people we were training to fight. Sure, it probably wouldn't have trained people as well as blowing stuff up in the real thing, but this was a pretty large step into modern military training.
I had never heard of this before, so I did find it worthy to be posted here. The re-relase story may not be too interesting, but the idea of early military computer based training is to me.
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While I agree with our comment, isn't that a pesemistic look? Many modern innovations came from seemingly innocent breakthroughts.
Thomas Edison and the kite expirement? While I agree that alot of vaporware exists, this could be the start of a breakthrough.
That just could be the fact that I tend to be an optomist thought...
Get a new girlfriend. Mine loves to swallow DNA.
"NO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS"?
The stories listed that it could be used to detect anomolies in the body and release certain drugs. The stories also listed that it can basiclly answer yes or no questions.
It seems pretty practical to me that it could relase some morphine if I stub my toe.
I for one found this interesting. If you look beneath the surface, you see a glimpse into history of what was actually being used to train our soldiers during the cold war.
We may live in a world now where this level of application is laughable, but look at the fact that during the 80's this was cutting edge.
With this in perpective, this game was probably much more advanced than the training programs used by the people we were training to fight. Sure, it probably wouldn't have trained people as well as blowing stuff up in the real thing, but this was a pretty large step into modern military training.
I had never heard of this before, so I did find it worthy to be posted here. The re-relase story may not be too interesting, but the idea of early military computer based training is to me.