<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=95275.msg4148881#msg4148881">Quote from: Vincent on 18-01-2011, 22:24:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">&lt;.&lt; &gt;.&gt; *flashes her with kate`s boobs* I knew that! I might need  to discuss robotics with you. Has the world gone something like the borg in terms of a collective mind for a group of robots? and any severing of the link renders them inert and probably turns them into a bomb?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Um... no?<br/><br/>People are still people. Vincent have you never read any cyberpunk? William Gibson's<em>Neuromancer</em>(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neuromancer-William-Gibson/dp/0006480411) is a good place to start.<br/><br/>There are self aware machines, but the smallest of them occupies a box the size of the one shown on Iffy's NPC sheet. None of them are able to move by themselves. In order to carry out the thought processes of a human being AND control a mechanical body that exactly resembles a human, the AI would, at this point, quite literally need "A brain the size of a planet". (Thanks Douglas)<br/><br/>The biochips in people's heads are basically a natural extension of that thing you have in your hand...<br/><br/>No, the other thing... the electronic one, that isn't attached between your legs! *eyerolls*<br/><br/>In 2011, mobile phone technology has come a long way in the last thirty years, and can't really go much further, without the advent of the next big field - bioware Technology or biotech. Nanotechnology will be needed for this but is already under development!<br/><br/>In 2087, Nanites, microscopic robots, are be used to make individual connections between circuits in the chip and neurons in the brain. The chip then becomes an addition to the human brain. It has the ability to connect directly to the internet, make phone calls, record sound and images, down load and/or stream entertainment. It can store data in a way that the user cannot forget and has instant access to. It can do anything that a modern day PC can do. With the right software and interfaces it can fly a space ship, improve your golf handicap, it can administer drugs, create unique art work, and can even be used to kill the user, although after the first few cases of Cyber-murders, safeguards were put in place to prevent it from happening.<br/><br/>Cyberspace is all like a First Person MMORPG with the best hi-res graphics available. Except you don't sit at a screen and watch what your avatar is doing, you sit in a chair staring at nothing while your implant takes over all sensory inputs to your body and you become totally immersed in the experience.<br/><br/>Obviously, not all implants are capable of this level of connection. Most are, though. And yes, you dirty minded people, that does make cyber-sex very realistic!<br/><br/>People have and still do become addicted to cyberspace. Cyber-junkies or "Alts" (from the term "alternate reality") vary from the addict who needs a daily fix to the total net-head who, unless someone finds him/her in time, will usually die of thirst within three days of jacking in.<br/><br/>The term "Jacking in" refers to inserting a hard-link USB jack into a socket on the cranial implant, usually located either at the base of the neck or behind one ear. In the early stages of implant development this was the only way to connect to the net, usually via a hand-held or desk-top device. The rapid inclusion of mobile phone technology into most implants rendered the term an anachronism but it is still used, just as the term "Boot up" (referring to staring a computer) is still used even though computers no longer haul themselves up "by their own boot-straps" (The origin of the term).<br/><br/>Radio being what it is, and IR being just a form of radio, the hard-jack is still used by the military for direct interface control of it's hardware, and is also used by civilian transport drivers/pilots.<br/><br/>In Cyberspace, AIs are gods! The more sophisticated the AI, the more godlike it's powers. Please note that, in the Cyberspace Thread, an AI NPC is permitted a certain level of god-moding because of this!<br/><br/>I think that describes just about everything?<br/><br/>Any questions?