re privacy, but will put it on list for lib. time.

And you might enjoy (or choke on) the er masterful interpolations within

The Light of Other Days, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter

through the development of the "worm cam" and --> Onwards. If science 'fiction' is best when it addresses and extrapolates trends ~ believably: well ... we ARE a species of voyeurs, after all is said and obfuscated.


Hmm, where'd you get That birthmark, Suzy?



S'OK -- we Could get used to flying naked, you know ;-) Hell.. it might even break the Puritan death-grip on the Murican psyche! After all, the handshake originated as evidence of a naked arms-free "hand". Techno now lets us hide nastier small weapons almost anywhere.. And so it goes.

Ashton