lauren%rand-unix@.ARPA (03/13/85)
From: Lauren Weinstein <vortex!lauren@rand-unix> Actually, one of the sad things "about" the film was that so many people got the impression that it was the first time anybody thought of such a concept. Most people watching the film were unaware of the long history in SF relating to such concepts, including a number of works that directly dealt with sexual "applications" of the technology. By the way, one of the truly laughable sub-concepts in the film was the sending of the brain data over acoustic modems. It seemed particularly odd that you'd need such "fancy" recording media for a signal that would fit into a telephone call's bandwidth. I agree fully that the film dwelled too long on the "life after death" aspects. But it should be noted that the film was rather fragmented and almost never released due to the untimely death that occurred during shooting. It's pretty remarkable that they were able to splice something even reasonably coherent together given the circumstances. In fact, the film came very, very close to never being finished. --Lauren--