I live in Graham, Texas, where the eMag factory that closed down is at. It's a small town (just under 10 thousand). There isn't much in the way of industry here, but for my entire life, eMag has always been here under one name or another. It's always been that factory with the big white steaming pipes right next to the Walmart and across from the airport. Some people worked there long enough to retire. It was quite a shock to the entire town a few weeks ago when the local paper said "eMag to shut down factory". The factory had downsized a few times in the past, but it has never officially shut down. It always seemed like one of those things that would be there forever, but it wasn't. Part of this town is gone now.
Dr. Mann fights technology with technology, wearing computers on his body and cameras in his glasses so he can "shoot back" by recording everything he sees. The billboards and advertisements posted on every public surface are a form of "attention theft," he says, so he has invented technology that replaces these messages with whatever he would like to see. When he is wearing his "eyetap" glasses, which project an image onto the retina of his eye, a condom ad in a bathroom becomes a picture of a waterfall.
"If the eye is the window of the soul," he argues, "then that window needs a shade. If the brain is a computer, then the eye is an open port, an unsecured opening against hackers."
A wireless connection provides a constant Internet link. With his wearable computer, Dr. Mann can see and hear things invisible to his visitor.
Is it just me, or does this sound a lot like something out of Snow Crash? While reading that article, I kept wondering if "Bruce Schechter" is actually a pseudonym for "Neal Stephenson". I wonder how long it'll be before long-range retinal scanners become the norm.
Starsiege: Tribes was multiplayer only and came out six months before Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena.
Just a minor correction... Tribes was out for almost a year before UT and Q3 came around. Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 came out in December '99. I bought Tribes back in February '99, and it had been out for about a month then.
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I live in Graham, Texas, where the eMag factory that closed down is at. It's a small town (just under 10 thousand). There isn't much in the way of industry here, but for my entire life, eMag has always been here under one name or another. It's always been that factory with the big white steaming pipes right next to the Walmart and across from the airport. Some people worked there long enough to retire. It was quite a shock to the entire town a few weeks ago when the local paper said "eMag to shut down factory". The factory had downsized a few times in the past, but it has never officially shut down. It always seemed like one of those things that would be there forever, but it wasn't. Part of this town is gone now.
Dr. Mann fights technology with technology, wearing computers on his body and cameras in his glasses so he can "shoot back" by recording everything he sees. The billboards and advertisements posted on every public surface are a form of "attention theft," he says, so he has invented technology that replaces these messages with whatever he would like to see. When he is wearing his "eyetap" glasses, which project an image onto the retina of his eye, a condom ad in a bathroom becomes a picture of a waterfall.
"If the eye is the window of the soul," he argues, "then that window needs a shade. If the brain is a computer, then the eye is an open port, an unsecured opening against hackers."
A wireless connection provides a constant Internet link. With his wearable computer, Dr. Mann can see and hear things invisible to his visitor.
Is it just me, or does this sound a lot like something out of Snow Crash? While reading that article, I kept wondering if "Bruce Schechter" is actually a pseudonym for "Neal Stephenson". I wonder how long it'll be before long-range retinal scanners become the norm.
The Flying Nun's last known position was somewhere in the Orion Nebula after a freak sudden hurricane.
Starsiege: Tribes was multiplayer only and came out six months before Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena.
Just a minor correction... Tribes was out for almost a year before UT and Q3 came around. Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 came out in December '99. I bought Tribes back in February '99, and it had been out for about a month then.