"Halo" - читать интересную книгу автора (Maddox Tom)

by drugs, meditation, and the egg. No matter that he was going to

relive his own terror, this was what moved him: access to the

many-worlds of human experiencetravel through space, time, and

probability all in one.

 

Virtual realities were everywherevirtual vacations, sex,

superstardom, you name itbut compared to the egg, they were just

high-res videogames or stage magic. VRs used a variety of tricks

to simulate physical presence, but the sensorium could be fooled

only to a certain degree, and when you inhabited a VR, you were

conscious of it, so sustaining its illusion depended on willing

suspension of disbelief. With the egg, however, you got total

involvement through all sensory modalitiesthe worlds were so

compelling that people waking from them often seemed lost in the

waking world, as if it were a dream.   

 

A needle punched into a membrane set in one of the neural

cables and injected a neuropeptide mix. Gonzales was transported.

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It was the final day of Gonzales's three week stay in Pagan,

the town in central Myanmar where the government had moved its

records decades earlier, in the wake of ethnic rioting in Yangon. 

He sat with Grossback, the Division Head of SenTrax Myanmar, at a

central rosewood table in the main conference room. The table's