Re: [HoE] Brainburner Question

["Eric Young" <ecyoung@mediaone.net>]

>>No, you connect something to yer head (jack me up),and that's how you
>>use it. :)
>
>roger that... they plug in to the temple with sharped prong thingies...
>
>hmm I wonder if the temple would become really caloused over time?
>and what about breaking the thin bone that is over the temple... why not
>just have a jack ala johnny mneumonic.


Constantly sticking a sharp prong into your temple has got to be really bad
for you, not to mention the serious risk of infection since it's going
right through to the brain. I would think that in order for this to be
practical you'd need some type of socket or jack. Otherwise there's just
too many dangers and reliability problems. While from a mad scientist point
of view this may not be much of a problem, we are talking about a piece of
state of the art military equipment. I would think they'd have something
more than just stick this pointy thing in your temple and put this
band-aid over the hole when you pull it out...

And isn't machine-head just a jack so you can plug things in? That's what
it sounds like from the description in the book...

Of course this would mean that every syker would have one since the TSAR
was standard issue...

Eric