Lawnmower Man
To/From: astern@cascade.internal.gate, jross@cascade.internal.gate
Janet, have you seen the film Lawnmower Man?
Abe, I haven't seen a lawn in three months.
It's incredible. They upload a human to a computer and it spreads across the entire world.
Have you been talking to Wakeman again?
Stewart refuses to discuss his research with me, Janet, you know that. But do you remember Tim BL's software? It would be perfect for this!
I told you Abe, this is a secret facility. The last thing we want is some ghost in the machine trapped in our network.
But it wouldn't be trapped. Something like this would be able to escape as easily as me walking through an open door. It would only take a slight adjustment of the setup in my office, and we could upload such software - if we ever had it, of course.
This idea is worse than your shrink ray, Abe.
It's all purely theoretical, Janet.