Re: [FT][SG][DS] structure of the NAC

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:
> Jared spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> > Secondly, I really thing I have to agree with Tom's suggestion

goes without saying :-)

> > - Electronic
> > Docs and multi-lingual computer translation are going to be
ubiquitous by
> > the time we're talking about.
>
> And we may have small vocoders that can translate. You'd be 
> effectively polylingual by having one of these. Maybe its a UN tech 
> development - the multilator.

potentially based around the Universal Network Language technology
currently being developed by - wait for it - the United nations
University:

http://unl.ias.unu.edu/

once more, life imitates GZG-L ...

> The 
> throat mike takes their native language, encodes it into a 'universal 
> language' (not necessarily understood by anything other than 
> computers)

i can only assume mr barclay is aware of the UNL project. otherwise,
this
is just too scary for words (those bloody orbital mind control lasers 
again!).

Tom