Let's talk about the ubiquity of the net.
You (me?) currently live in a world that is constantly connected, and an immense amount of data is flung through the ether, but we don't think about it. You do think about how that picture of your cat is awfully cute, or how many people may follow your post about pancakes on rabbits.
This is a definite part of the future. Trust me, I've been there, with laser ax and all. But we, in the future don't even have to necessarily be on a terminal of any sort, some of us (like me!) can just access the internet in our minds. I'm a robot, so I think it's okay. But I do imagine it's that way because we (robots) have pretty good virus, spam, and identity control. If you don't, I imagine that being connected to the Ultranet via neural connection would be a nightmare.
I dreamt once of being a fax machine. I really can't get the beep boop brrr sound out of my head.
This plays into two of our new base assumptions and their consequences:
Communication is ubiquitous and once again Transhumanism.
Communiction in standard fantasy worlds isn't exactly the greatest or the fastest or even the most accessible - probably something at best akin to the pony express. But in the future, it's everywhere! So much data and so many people talking to each other it's overwhelming. It's like being a crowded room that's of infinite size.
So here's how the Internet works in the Future:
The Relay
Anyway, what about this whole Transhumanistic angle here?
Let's talk about the last two races, and how some are constantly connected to some sort of network. That poses a lot of different problems that most biological entities don't have to worry about like Disconnect and Overflow, and constant or Personal Electronic Warfare.
Electronic Warfare!?
But it seem a little unfair that only two races get to play in the Digital World...
D-Souls and DatakyberS!
I think next time, we might go exploring the mystical nature of the Digital Psyche, The No-Zone, and how all that applies into my Robo-brain. Without blowing it all to pieces.
Anyway, tell me what you think. I'll be spitting out papers for a while...
P.S. Forgot to include the new SkillS!
And Thanks to Cartoon Walls for the Art (though I didn't ask, I still wanted to give the most easily traceable link to the art that's hidden within the The Relay pdf. Please don't sue! I'm a poor robot who has to pretend to be a fax machine to make a "living".)
