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Omni Magazine (January 1983) On 1982' S WORST SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS THE BLACK BOX: SECRET DRUG TREATMENT OF ROCK SUPERSTARS JOHN LILLY ON WAYS OF AMUSING GOD EXCLUSIVE: Wttim BUILD-IT-YOURSELF ROBOT PLUS SCIENCE ON THE TRAIL OF SEA MONKEYS, APEMEN.AND LIVING DINOSAURS onnrui1983 JANUARY EDITOR & DESIGN DIRECTOR: BOB GUCCIONE PRESIDENT: KATHY KEETON EXECUTIVE EDITOR: DICK TERESI 3RA--ICSD RECTOR FRANK DtVINO ART DIRECTOR: ELIZAEETH WOODSON CONTENTS PAGE FIRST WORD Opinion Vernor Vinge to OMNIBUS Contributors 12 COMMUNICATIONS Correspondence 14 FORUM Dialogue 16 EARTH Environment Douglas Starr 20 SPACE Comment Owen Davies 22 LIFE Biornedicine Tabitha M. Powledge 24 MIND Behavior Mike Edelhart 26 BOOKS The Arts Morton Hunt 28 FILM The Arts Roberta Grant 30 BUILD-IT-YOURSELF ROBOT Breakthroughs Gurney Williams III 32 CONTINUUM Data Bank 35 THE SLACK BOX Article Kathleen McAuliffe 44 THE MIND OF MEDEA Fiction Kate Wilhelm 52 JOHN LILLY Interview Judith Hooper 56 1982's WORST ACHIEVEMENTS Pictorial Mike Edelhart 60 SPAC ESCAPES Pictorial Rober! McCall 34 ANTIMATTER UFOs, etc. 91 ON THE TRAIL OF Article Karen Ehrlich and LIVING DINOSAURS E Lee Speigel 108 SPIRAL JETTY Phenomena Gianlranco Gorgoni 124 GAMES Diversions Scot Morris 128 LAST WORD Humor Randy Cohen 130 Don Brautigam originally created this painting tor the cover of Stephen King's book Night Shift (New American Library). Jim Plumeri developed the concept based on the story "I Am the Doorway," in wnch ahe/is ;nr;aa: the hand of an astronaut. T IAJDRD QRJirUIBU! mni's network of stringers usually skilled brain researcher, and authority genetic engineering, and space come from the halls of academia. in fields as diverse as neuroanatomy, manufacturing will create dramatic But the unlikely channel of rock biophysics, and computer theory, Today, change. Present modes of energy, 'n' roll provides the spark of inspiration in a self-imposed exile, he works with commerce, and transportation will be behind this month's feature "Brain Tuner," computers to develop a human/dolphin outdated. The fortunes of some national which looks at a novel cure lor drug language. In this month's unique Interview, economies will falter, reshaping the addiction developed by Scottish surgeon on page 56, the man whose life was spheres of political influence. The details Dr. Margaret Patterson. It was British the model for film the Altered States tells of this revolution are chronicled in "Our rock star PeteTownshend. of the one contributor Judith Hooper about his Future Stock." an excerpt from the recently many celebrities treated by Patterson, who quantum leaps; from Catholicism to self- released book The Omni Future Almanac, tipped us off to her bizarre line of work. experimentation with psychedelics and published by Harmony/Crown. On page At least Townshend's description sounded extraterrestrial reality, from the labs of 68 Omni's editors forecast future bizarre. Patterson, he explained, uses Cartesian science to the sonar tanks incomes for emerging job markets, a little black box lo help people give up of his cetaceans. estimate the prices for commodities from everything tram heroin to cigarettes Qmnl's "Laurels (and Hardys)" were hamburgers to houses, and warn about and alcohol. The "box" was supposed inaugurated last year to commemorate the skills likely to be outmoded. to ameliorate withdrawal symptoms and renownless wizards of science who Ancient texts abound with legends of ease craving by transmitting a small invent curious machines, espouse novel sea serpents and leviathans — prehistoric amount of electricity to the addict's brain. theories, entertain the improbable, or Greatures that defy fictionalization. They Omni associate editor Kathleen McAuliffe, just plain blunder about. Mike Edelhart, suddenly appear and disappear, leaving who in the past has written on other coauthor of The Ultimate Computer Book behind iootpr nts. skeletal fragments, aspects of electrical medicine, was (Addison-Wesley, 1983), was given the and big rumors—from Central Asia to assigned to check the story out. "I was task of collecting the oddest scientific Africa's inland waterways to the American skeptical at first, because the black box achievements of 1982. Consider, for West. The International Society of simply sounded too good fo true." be example, the company that designed a Cryptozoology (Box 43070. Tucson, AZ she recalls. "But after carefully researching computer program that verbally abuses its 85733) was founded to capture and study its scientific rationale, and speaking io operator. Or the scientists who attached these atypical biological specimens. some half-dozen of Patterson's patients, I weights to the legs of cockroaches and Karen Ehrlich is a hypnotist and Human believe her therapy holds the potential made them run on treadmills. Surely Potential Trainer. E. Lee Speigel is of revolutionizing the field of drug city dwellers will welcome this new producer and hos! of The Edge of Reality. rehabilitation." For her in-deplh report, resistless breed with wiry hamstrings. a weekly WNBC radio show. Coauthors turn to page 44. In recognition of such clogs in the wheel of "Hidden Monsters" (page 108), they Dr. John Lilly is best-known the as of progress, Omni announces its awards, vividly describe expeditions of "dolphin man." His life is an odyssey, a starting on page 60. anthropologists in pursuit of such fascinating, bewildering, controversial and Within the next few decades a burst of zoological anomalies as Bigfoot, the story. He is a mental giant, a man of scientific and technological activity will Tasrnan an wolf, and Champ, from enormous talent; qualified psychoanalyst. alter our world. Automated office systems. Lake Champlain.DQ 12 OMNI . Until the Ultimate: The sometime- visible/so metime-invisible Wizard. Trust no one. Wizard is designed so two may play at the same time. And since all's fair in Wor, even your best friend can zap you. Now we don't want you to freak out totally but if you're still up to the challenge, top the all-time, high And finally: The dreaded score: 99,500 by Frank Merollo Neutron Flagship. (10/82) and Buz Pryzby (8/82). GORF Gorf's not easy There's only ONE So you're hot stuff at video Can you hold up under the vulnerable spot on the Flagship. games? Joysticks melt in your challenge ot Jour different boards But don't let a little neutronium At nine different hand? Don't let it go to your in one game? bomb stop you from hitting it. head. Try mastering Wizard of levels? Try and beat the high Wor and Gorf, the two Bally/Mid- score of 32,700 by Horace Ecker- way arcade hits you can now strom (9/82). No sweat? Well, play at home. They're new from what if we told you each level CBS Video Games. was faster than the last? Next Both are made for the Atari® time you'll think before you Video Computer System™ and speak, But now you must face: Sears Video Arcade™ WIZARD OF WOR Dare you enter the Wizard's diabolic dungeon where doom lurks at every turn? Can you keep Now that you know what to your composure as the Wizard's expect, are you still up to the . of and Gorf? henchmen iry eating you . challenge Wizard ALIVE? Fight back. Use your radar screen, Gc;--ian bombs. LETTERS cDnnruiuruicMTiarus Read All About II Manufactured Taxpayers I jus! finished have I reading the August was outraged when I read the article 1982 issue of Omni, and I think the Games entitled "Baby Makers, Inc.," by Allan section [on humorous headlines] is Maurer [Continuum, September 1982]. particularly funny. It reminded me of a Why does a fantastic science magazine funny story and a headline that my sister- deal with future political issues? So in-law told me about a few years ago what if the fourth most populous country about a small group of crazed women in in the world becomes the fortieth? I've Lansing, Michigan, who for some strange always thought that the government religious rite slathered themselves with is more concerned with eliminating human mustard and stole a United Parcel Service life (considering the vast escalation of truck. The police finally apprehended nuclear warheads) than with creating it. the women, and the story was printed in Oh, I get it, now. Somebody must be the Lansing paper with the headline, afraid of the fact that fewer people means MUSTARD LADY FLEES, POLICE CATCH UP. fewer taxpayers. Elizabeth Hennessey Anthony Michaels Detroit, Mich. Philadelphia Mad about Marijuana Bad Break The fact that marijuana is illegal seems to Is 3-D TV really considered a break- have clouded the judgment of Franklynn through [Continuum, September 1982]? Peterson and Judi Kesselman-Turkel Now the car chases, the shootings, the in their report "Reefer Madness" vulgarity, and the inane commercials will [Continuum, September 1982]. It would actually come right out of the screen be equally desirable and necessary at us, eh? to isolate and test active components I would consider it a greater break- of marijuana if it were legal. through to create a robot that would crush Have the authors forgotten the large the television sets and hand everyone number of persons who, for health or a book to read. safety reasons, cannot smoke, "four joints Sterling Johnson a day"? Would they not even try to help Palm Springs, Calif. those for whom euphoria is disorienting, unpleasant, and sometimes frightening? Baldness Concern If the authors believe that It marijuana isn't often that I feel an urge to write to is safe and harmless, they should work to a magazine, but "Baldness Cure," by legalize it rather than attack the legitimate Eric Mishara [Continuum, July 1982], scientific efforts of researchers. deserves comment. Being afflicted with Joseph Budd this malady (alas!), I read the report St.
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