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To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (33483)	1/18/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: j g cordes	Respond to of 58727

Lisa, regarding the dentist, who probably confuses his broker with cross-occupational directives like "Extract 5k from XYZ and implant 4K into ZYX," I can relate to that story directly. Four years ago I had a satellite dish on the roof of my business with a real time feed, two computers running, one for the feed the other for historical analysis and a separate telephone line just to make phone calls to brokers. Watching the market got to be a hassel so I put in a text to voice card that was programed to interupt outloud if key price points were broken up or down on a particular stock or index. Like many things in life I found that I had to program the voice to be more and more forceful to get my attention. Like people on a diet or smokers perhaps, I found that I didn't respond to my own 'pain' thresholds unless I made the message more and more attention getting. Eventually it would sing out a need to profitably exit with something like ".. we're making money, sell, sell, sell..." or if the trade was losing "we're screwed, get out, get out.." While clients were in the office it was pretty interesting. Jim

To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (33483)	1/18/1998 10:34:00 AM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58727

Lisa, On further consideration, I can imagine much more discreet computer to trader interfaces that wouldn't alert the client you have to ignore them for a moment and systems that would operate in the background during the course of one's day... 1. clothing that tugs on you, to get your attention, and phones that know its time to dial the broker and tell you there's someone on line. 2. trading feedback epidural drug delivery systems that provide pleasurable experiences for winning trades and unpleasurable ones that accelerate the desire to exit 3. the usual things like glasses with built in crt displays with realtime news and prices from the cbot etc. 4. subliminal voices constantly prepping one's winning attitude as a sort of sidekick motivational speaker. As the ability to trade in markets increases, one's assets will become increasingly vulnerable in shorter windows of time. Yes there will be the equivalent of airbag trading deployments as one cruises through InvesterSpace. There will also be a new phenomena called random acts of joy and despair seen in public places as someone finds they're suddenly richer or suddenly poor. Brave New World.. Jim