From: gbooman@feds1.prime.com (Gordon Booman)
Subject: Re: INDUSTRY: NASA develops "telepresence" for exploration (Forwarded)
Date: 7 Feb 92 14:27:09 GMT
Message-ID: <2686@cvbnetPrime.COM>
Organization: Prime Computervision, Bedford MA



In article <1992Feb6.213626.20945@milton.u.washington.edu>
awm@vrnet.washington.edu (Andy MacDonald) writes about telepresence
vacations and then:

>[This article Copyright (C) 1992  Andrew MacDonald, so that when Hertz
>Rent-a-robot makes big bucks, I get some of it.  Enormous :-D ]

Good luck.  The concept has shown up in sci fi already, if precedence
is all you're worried about - the recent novel "Take back Plenty" and
the earlier "The Electric Kid". (Or was it "The Schizoid Kid"?)
Probably other stuff too, I just don't remember.

Doesn't everything show up in sci fi first?

Gordon Booman  gbooman@feds1.prime.com  Prime/Computervision, Bedford, MA, USA