Villier's particular interests led him to speculate about whether this field of invention might provide new opportunities for sensual pleasure. Carrying information back and forth across town, continent, or hemisphere in large amounts, fairly quickly, will not be a problem. The computation load generated by such a system is definitely a problem, too, a show stopper in fact, in terms of today's computing capabilities. The most serious technical obstacles that make the teledonics an early to mid twenty first century technology rather than next years fad lie in the extremely powerful computers needed top perform the enormous number of added calculations required to monitor and control hundreds and thousands of sensors and effectors. Every nook and protuberance, every plane and valley and knob of your body's surface, will require its own processor.
Transducers are a real problems, as well.
The engineering problems in building transducers, the parts of the system that communicate in a form that people can squeeze and scratch, stroke and probe, may be formidable, but they are already the subject of focused effort on three continents. Hennequin with his pneumatics and Johnson with his shape memory alloy are not the only ones. Researchers at ATR in Japan were very interested in the transmission of touch. Researchers in Italy may have just made a big step toward the kind of intimate cyber garment described above. A very crude prototype of the light weight sensor effector mesh has already been developed.