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[camwyn]

NO NO NO OH HELL NO.

SERIOUSLY, DO WE NOT GET BOMBARDED ENOUGH ALREADY.

A new generation of contact lenses that project images in front of the eyes is a step closer after successful animal trials, say scientists.

The technology could allow wearers to read floating texts and emails or augment their sight with computer-generated images, Terminator-syle.

This is not quite as bad as I originally thought- the headline called them 'bionic lenses', which gave me the mistaken impression that these things were being designed for implantation. And the full deal is still some ways off. But the full deal that they're reaching for is not a good idea. Jesus. Except for some specialized applications like rescue work and whatnot, nobody needs to be that close to their computer or that tied in to the Net.

No. Just no.

Comments

[bogboblin.livejournal.com]

But I could have stupid vision like Batman games. :(

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I'd be scared of spammers hacking into the lenses or pop-up advertizing like in the Minority Report movie.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It wouldn't have to involve hacking at all; it'd be naïve to think nobody's going to sell ad space in this augmented reality system. Imagine a world where the billboards follow you around. And that's probably just scratching the surface.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Or you can't afford the expensive lenses to augment your vision, so you have to look at ads all the time in order to get them free. :)

[aduial-peredhel.livejournal.com]

Yeah...um...no.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

But I could walk around playing farmville ALL THE TIME! /sarcasm

[ymfaery]

Wouldn't neural implants be easier at this point? >.>a

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

Not as far as I know!

[ashen_key]

...oh, hell no.

Really old story

[erika westberg (from livejournal.com)]

Hi!
Now this is going to sound all stalkerish, but for the last few years, I've checked out your page on fanfiction.net every now and then and checked your homepage every now and then to read all the awesome stories again and maybe, just maybe find something new. Today I decided to do some google-fu and found this livejournal. Now I realize that you're probably not going to finish my favourite fanfic ever, about John Constantine teaching at Hogwarts, but I want to say anyway that I really really really love that idea and I think you're an awesome writer. That one and the one with Samuel Vimes in the Silmarillion-story has stuck with me. Thanks for many laughs!

Re: Really old story

[camwyn]

I'm glad you liked them! And, yeah, no, I'm probably not going to finish Hellblazer: Hogwarts. Partly because I haven't really had it in me to read or re-read Hellblazer since about issue 200, partly because I'm no longer as soured on my job as I was back at the time I started it, and partly because the overall plot I was planning kind of fell apart after the last few HP books got published. My apologies for that.

I also lost my password to FFN and no amount of attempting to get it back has succeeded, so I've created a new account there under the user name 'camwynya'. Most of what I've posted since then has been Fallout fanfic, though, so I don't know how interested you're likely to be.

Thank you very much for letting me know, though! I'm glad you liked it.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

It will be touted as encouraging people to connect with the real world more, since they can see the real world *and* facebook, instead of just facebook.

[the_croupier]

Somewhere a studio executive is already asking, "But can we get them in 3D?"


You know they are.