From: jwtlai@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Jim W 'GrimJim' Lai)
Subject: Re: CULTURE/PHIL/PUB: He, SHE, and IT
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 06:39:19 GMT
Message-ID: <C7BBtK.Axs@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
Organization: U Waterloo


In article <1taqmgINNfme@news.u.washington.edu> rick@maxai.den.mmc.com
(Rick Duffy) writes at the very end of a longer article:

>In more advanced products, the tools will configure and function
>differently depending on the managers role at the time.  Some products
>even call these flavors of login ids "personas".  This all seems a
>real-world example that may form the foundation of some of the above ideas.

Personae?  I can imagine it now: an interactive VR porn service
tribute to Camille Paglia: Sexual Personae In Heat.  Then we can have
the cautionary VR tale: Wild and Hairy Palms.  Geraldo will have a
field day.  :)

[ducks as the audience unleashes a projectile barrage of rotten organics]