Can you imagine how this would affect poor Dudley? "I am sorry but you have a defective brain, no information seems to be received in real time…."
HI Neal On Jun 21, 2012, at 4:48 PM, Bill K7UOP wrote: > I have a Flex 5000 and enjoy the Panafall display and the ease of integrating > the SDR with all the other software and tools on my computer. But, I > imagine, with the exciting advances of the Flex 6000 series I'll be upgrading > soon. > > While envisioning all the possibilities of the new architecture, it was a > little eery when I ran across a passage in an old science fiction paperback. > I just had to share it with the Flex community. > > _An excerpt from "The Avatar" pg.192 __by Poul Anderson, first published in > 1978__:_ > "The HUMAN BRAIN, and hence the entire nervous system, can be integrated with > a computer of the proper design," the speaker was droning, "We have long > since progressed beyond the 'wires in the head' stage. Electromagnetic > induction suffices to make a linkage." ... "For example, a spectrum is > best considered - rationally appreciated - when the operator sees it and, > simultaneously, knows the exact wavelength and intensity of every line. > Through the appropriate hardware and software, this can now be done. > Subjectively, it is like sensing the data directly, as if the nervous system > had grown complete new input organs of unprecedented power and sensitivity." > ... > > Guess one of the things for Flex to work on in the future is an Ethernet to > Brain interface. ;-) > > Bill - K7UOP > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used > for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist > who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
