Reconstructing video from cat brains

[lethargic_man]

Whoa!

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[ewx.livejournal.com]

Good stuff.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

D'you reckon cat-based cameras are likely any time soon?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Have you read "Lobsters (http://www.asimovs.com/Nebulas03/Lobsters.shtml)" (the first of autopope's short stories now novelised as Accelerando (http://www.accelerando.org/)) yet?

"I wonder if he's moved on to vertebrates yet?"

"Cats," says Pamela. "He was hoping to trade their uploads to the Pentagon as a new smart bomb guidance system in lieu of income tax payments. Something about remapping enemy targets to look like mice or birds or something before feeding it to their sensorium. The old laser-pointer trick."

Manfred stares at her, hard. "That's not very nice. Uploaded cats are a bad idea."