I needs the internet, I needs it bad.

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1797065]

Icon via peteyoung, who marvellously made it for the last time I nagged people into updating their LJs.

Comments

[andrewducker]

I can't do contact lenses. Well not so far, anyway. I'd work pretty damn hard at overcoming that if they produced ones that gave virtual overlays for real life.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

I was just commenting elsewhere that I find piped music and TVs on in the background to be sensory overload, I couldn't cope with internet into my eyes or brain. I'd have to go and live in the middle of nowhere like a medieval hermit!

[khoth.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced that having the internet attached directly to your eyeballs will feel less icky than contact lenses...

[andrewducker]

If it's a cable interfacing directly with the optic cord then it shouldn't feel of anything at all. And it's entirely possible that once I had a contact lens _on_ my eye I'd feel fine with it. But as the thought of putting one on there makes me feel much the same as if someone was lowering a tarantula towards my face, I've never found out.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

It'd definitely need to have a hard 'off' switch for me for this reason as well - it'd be great most of the time but I can't work properly with the telly/most music on so internet in my brain would be even more distracting!

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

my answer to all these questions: OW OW WHAT ARE YOU DOING OH MY GOD

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, I can't do contact lenses either. I'm kind of amused that, with my partially-sightedness being related to my optic nerves and my visual cortex, the internet jacked into my eyeball or brain would probably make it more difficult for me to see!

[cosmolinguist]

(oh my reasons aren't for things touching my eyes; the partially-sightedness also means I was really jaded about this really really early on in life; my reasons for not doing contact lenses are that it's useless for physical-impossibility reasons).

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you and I have very similar phobias. Do you have my phobia about dancing?

[andrewducker]

I'm afraid not. I love dancing :->

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely. I'd want downtime, and large chunks of it!

[erratio.livejournal.com]

No Internet sunglasses option?

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Neural lace ftw

[heyokish.livejournal.com]

re: internet in your brain... have you read Geoff Ryman's novel, Air?

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I view the insertion of a contact lens as functionally equivalent to poking oneself in the eye. Nope, can't do it.

-- Steve's mother may have been a bit too emphatic with the "you'll poke your eye out" stuff in his childhood.

[andrewducker]

Yes, loved it. The ending was a bit left-field, but I thought that the majority of it was excellent.

[andrewducker]

Indeedy! Want!

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I'd avoid both contact lenses and dancing.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced the bit where the plunge a cable inside your head to reach the optic nerve will feel pleasant, YMMV

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Also, until spam (whether email, advertising or simply being unable to easily filter what you see of friends' activity on popular feed sites), the internet on anything directly in my head is bad.

[andrewducker]

I get very little spam nowadays. And with adblock I don't see that much other stuff I don't want to.

Except when you send me links to it. You bastard.

[andrewducker]

I was planning on sleeping through that bit.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

My definition of spam is different to yours.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Oh, because I'd let someone put the INTERNET in my head while I was sleeping.

[andrewducker]

Mine is "Unsolicited Commercial Email".

I assume yours is "Pictures of Naked Optimus Prime that Scott keeps sending you even though you've begged him to stop."

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

You were the last person to send me a pervy transformers thing.

Also, Optimus Prime is always naked.

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

Eye surgery is, generally, performed on an alert subject I believe... I could be wrong but the few people I know who've needed any form of surgery have all been awake through the experience.

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

Damn you both! Now the evil part of my brain wants to see pervy transformers but, I hasten to add NONE of the rest of me does. Think I'll go back to watching the burlesque star wars thing.

[andrewducker]

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kiss_Players_%28franchise%29

[cosmolinguist]

For laser vision correction or whatever, sure. But messing with stuff in your optic nerves is a little more involved and oogy and, yeah, I'd want to sleep through it.

[heyokish.livejournal.com]

It is rather good, isn't it?

Oh, and the optic nerve thing has now got me thinking about Pat Cadigan's Mindplayers which has pop-out-the-eye-and-connect-to-the-optic-nerve interfaces, which is a pretty ooky thought for someone who can't even face contacts...

[andrewducker]

I pretty much grew up with cyberpunky stuff, starting with all sorts of cyborg fun in things like 2000AD when I was a kid, and going on from there. The idea that it might _not_ be possible to plug things directly into my brain at some point seems...odd :->

[zz]

how would the contact or eyeball versions get their input?

also, i don't want my brain hacked (that easily)/DOSed/spammed. on which topic i updated my lj for you. :)

[soon_lee]

Squicky, as there will be a permanent pathway between the inside bits of your eye and the outside world. Skin & mucous membranes keep the outside (bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites), uh, out.

It's bad enough reading about people who suffer vision damage due to not changing/cleaning their contact lenses. This is worse.

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

And me. I wish they'd hurry up with those.