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"There's a tendency to think that maybe if we can just throw enough hardware at the AI problem, then evolution can take care of the rest. Certainly that's how God went about making us."
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If they can make artificial skin, why can't it do more than just keep my internals internal?
Compare to signal skin from Iain Banks' 2004 novel The Algebraist.
Now, let's take this idea a step further. If you had readout skin all over your body, you could change your tattoos whenever you want. If you had readout skin covering your upper body, you could output appropriate graphics that looked like you were wearing a suit (haven't I seen a t-shirt like that?)
Artificial skin? Here's how Integra works:
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Now that's power walking that Hugo Gernsback would have approved.
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'It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct...'
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