> using a jet fighter to shield your infantry from the rain
Great imagery, and similar to the thoughts I had when reading that series. They can imprint arbitrary images on human retinas, you'd think they could at least disable computers if not suborn our networks completely. I suppose that their... mental handicap could prevent them from coming up with the idea of our computers "lie" to us, but that seems a little flimsy.
I must be forgetting something, or something is in the sequels - what mental handicap? And I thought the entire point of the Sophons was to have the computers lie to us.
(Versus, say, blocking out all light from the sun and freezing us to death. Or reflecting more and burning us alive. Or slicing through every human's spinal cord. Or detonating nuclear devices. Or whatever.)
Great imagery, and similar to the thoughts I had when reading that series. They can imprint arbitrary images on human retinas, you'd think they could at least disable computers if not suborn our networks completely. I suppose that their... mental handicap could prevent them from coming up with the idea of our computers "lie" to us, but that seems a little flimsy.