http://alex.zulenka.com/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:08:44 +0000 MyBB http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17892 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:23:33 +0000 Sigfried Hunin]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17892 http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechno...pgn=fbsci1

Also, I was wondering if we're forging ahead with this. I'm on the cusp of writing something but I'd hate to be the only one.]]> http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechno...pgn=fbsci1

Also, I was wondering if we're forging ahead with this. I'm on the cusp of writing something but I'd hate to be the only one.]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17888 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:08:07 +0000 Alexander Trafford]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17888
Am I missing anything?]]>
Am I missing anything?]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17885 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:21:23 +0000 Sigfried Hunin]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17885
Ligand basically means "chemical." Anything with such a nuanced interface with the brain is going to make use of your body's natural means of communication and not just electrocute your crap. IMO.

Also, looking at things like:

Makes me wonder how a direct neural implant would manage to cover all the right areas.

I'm thinking of something like a "neural net" or the like that had several linked nodes around these areas, each with a thin membrane over those areas that slipped into the gaps of the cortex, running deep enough to interact with the deeper areas of the brain. This method is probably better than the next because it simply gives your brains stimuli to interpret as opposed to interpreting stimuli for your brain.

Another option would be to actual house a larger, more dangerous implant in the white matter of the brain, deep to the cortex. If this was the case, you'd need 2 of these implants in each hemisphere, and possibly a bridge through the corpus colosum but not necessarily. The issue with this is obviously that you'll be replacing nature's most efficient and complicated super computer with man-made supercomputer that is then interfering with those signals as opposed to just interpreting external stimuli.

The LINC would then have a plug near the rear that would allow you to jack in to it externally.

The chair could then just be called a "LINC Jack" or a "Jack" or something.

JUST IMO, GUYS, ITS ALL IMO. IMO EVERYWHERE.]]>
Ligand basically means "chemical." Anything with such a nuanced interface with the brain is going to make use of your body's natural means of communication and not just electrocute your crap. IMO.

Also, looking at things like:

Makes me wonder how a direct neural implant would manage to cover all the right areas.

I'm thinking of something like a "neural net" or the like that had several linked nodes around these areas, each with a thin membrane over those areas that slipped into the gaps of the cortex, running deep enough to interact with the deeper areas of the brain. This method is probably better than the next because it simply gives your brains stimuli to interpret as opposed to interpreting stimuli for your brain.

Another option would be to actual house a larger, more dangerous implant in the white matter of the brain, deep to the cortex. If this was the case, you'd need 2 of these implants in each hemisphere, and possibly a bridge through the corpus colosum but not necessarily. The issue with this is obviously that you'll be replacing nature's most efficient and complicated super computer with man-made supercomputer that is then interfering with those signals as opposed to just interpreting external stimuli.

The LINC would then have a plug near the rear that would allow you to jack in to it externally.

The chair could then just be called a "LINC Jack" or a "Jack" or something.

JUST IMO, GUYS, ITS ALL IMO. IMO EVERYWHERE.]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17877 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:25:13 +0000 Sigfried Hunin]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17877 PLEASE READ AND PARTICIPATE IN THE ENTIRE DISCUSSION BEFORE VOTING


Very Not-Dystopian
Before the fall (Brink)
Just after the fall (Decline)
Very Dystopian

I think it's important for me to quantify these:

Very Not-Dystopian
Yes, the Net is huge and everybody loves it, but they still go about their daily lives. There are plenty of addicts and people obviously spend more than they should, but it's not causing the world to fall apart.

Brink
Things are looking pretty bad. Most people spend most of their time online, and a lot of real-world activities are starting to go out. Sports, bars, and any kind of physical community is hanging on by a thread, but are still populated by old-timers (40 and over people) and a few young, interested parties.

Decline
Shit just turned for the worse. Almost everybody spends almost all of their time online. Almost all of the physical world is gone and there are no longer any big-time physical events that can sustain themselves. The only people that bother doing anything but the minimum in the real world are fogies or are medically incapable of getting the implant.

Very Dystopian
Everything is pretty bad. People are locked in their houses all day, the streets below practically a ghost town. There are no major physical events and everybody has almost no interest in anything that isn't virtual.

-

I personally prefer a society that is on the Brink because that were there is a good balance of waking world stuff to the stuff going on on the Net. You can say all you want about me being able to write as much as I want in either world, but in the Decline the big things like real world sports, small communities of old timers who like to do stuff outside of the net and a lot of cultural standards have already gone away, which doesn't leave a lot of room for writing.

I want a world where things are looking really bad for the future but there are still those people who like going outside and doing stuff. It's not like the cities are in droves or that everything is ok, but I want to be able to sustain a character that can have a job off the Net.




RUNNING TOTALS: (I'm counting everyone's preferences, so if they have 2 things they don't mind, a vote goes into both.)
Not-Very: ||
Brink: ||||||
Decline: ||||
Very:

Sigfried: Brink
Vic: Not Very or Brink
Sophia: Not Very or Brink
Blue: Decline
Piper: Brink or Decline
Orion: Brink or Decline
Tyr: Not sure yet?
Meer: Not here yet.
King B: Brink or Decline]]> PLEASE READ AND PARTICIPATE IN THE ENTIRE DISCUSSION BEFORE VOTING


Very Not-Dystopian
Before the fall (Brink)
Just after the fall (Decline)
Very Dystopian

I think it's important for me to quantify these:

Very Not-Dystopian
Yes, the Net is huge and everybody loves it, but they still go about their daily lives. There are plenty of addicts and people obviously spend more than they should, but it's not causing the world to fall apart.

Brink
Things are looking pretty bad. Most people spend most of their time online, and a lot of real-world activities are starting to go out. Sports, bars, and any kind of physical community is hanging on by a thread, but are still populated by old-timers (40 and over people) and a few young, interested parties.

Decline
Shit just turned for the worse. Almost everybody spends almost all of their time online. Almost all of the physical world is gone and there are no longer any big-time physical events that can sustain themselves. The only people that bother doing anything but the minimum in the real world are fogies or are medically incapable of getting the implant.

Very Dystopian
Everything is pretty bad. People are locked in their houses all day, the streets below practically a ghost town. There are no major physical events and everybody has almost no interest in anything that isn't virtual.

-

I personally prefer a society that is on the Brink because that were there is a good balance of waking world stuff to the stuff going on on the Net. You can say all you want about me being able to write as much as I want in either world, but in the Decline the big things like real world sports, small communities of old timers who like to do stuff outside of the net and a lot of cultural standards have already gone away, which doesn't leave a lot of room for writing.

I want a world where things are looking really bad for the future but there are still those people who like going outside and doing stuff. It's not like the cities are in droves or that everything is ok, but I want to be able to sustain a character that can have a job off the Net.




RUNNING TOTALS: (I'm counting everyone's preferences, so if they have 2 things they don't mind, a vote goes into both.)
Not-Very: ||
Brink: ||||||
Decline: ||||
Very:

Sigfried: Brink
Vic: Not Very or Brink
Sophia: Not Very or Brink
Blue: Decline
Piper: Brink or Decline
Orion: Brink or Decline
Tyr: Not sure yet?
Meer: Not here yet.
King B: Brink or Decline]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17875 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:33:17 +0000 Jonathan Meer]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17875
I will make the final judgment call (just to summarize what was decided, and implement it if necessary), but that call will be the direct result of the discussion that occurs. Generally, discussions will go on for at least three days before a decision is made, though if a consensus is not reached, discussions will continue.

To this end, we should also police the world as a community. If someone is writing something that seems thoroughly inconsistent with the world, or contradicts an earlier decision, that should be respectfully brought up in a message to the player. If it's just a fuzzy inconsistency, it can be left well-enough alone (comics manage to tell interesting stories despite being ALL SORTS of inconsistent), but if it's egregious (flying teleporting space vampires bombing Moscow), the post may be deleted (after providing the user ample opportunity to save the post). All of these decisions will be made by the community as a whole.]]>
I will make the final judgment call (just to summarize what was decided, and implement it if necessary), but that call will be the direct result of the discussion that occurs. Generally, discussions will go on for at least three days before a decision is made, though if a consensus is not reached, discussions will continue.

To this end, we should also police the world as a community. If someone is writing something that seems thoroughly inconsistent with the world, or contradicts an earlier decision, that should be respectfully brought up in a message to the player. If it's just a fuzzy inconsistency, it can be left well-enough alone (comics manage to tell interesting stories despite being ALL SORTS of inconsistent), but if it's egregious (flying teleporting space vampires bombing Moscow), the post may be deleted (after providing the user ample opportunity to save the post). All of these decisions will be made by the community as a whole.]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17874 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:53:05 +0000 Blue]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17874 http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17872 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:21:55 +0000 Jonathan Meer]]> http://alex.zulenka.com/showthread.php?tid=17872
The genre is cyberpunk. The environment is St. Petersburg, Russia in the year 2079. Life is divided into two worlds: the Waking World, of train schedules and hunger and orgasm and rain; and the Net, of glitz and glamour and freedom. In 2052, a Chinese scientist developed a neural mechanism for projecting a user into the internet as a virtual world. This neural implant, while by no means ubiquitous, has come to be as common a device as a mobile phone, and only the thoroughly impoverished lack the docking mechanism (typically a reclined chair) required to 'jack into' the net.

To save costs, everything but the small handful of jobs that actually require physical interaction (medicine, specialized construction and manufacturing that hasn't yet been solved by robotics, prostitution) are handled entirely by jacking into the Net and wiring into a virtual office environment. A few corporations reacted to the changing business landscape faster than others, and grew exponentially more powerful: AkiraTech, specializing in robotic prosthetics and neural implants; Delphi, specializing in expanding and developing the virtual infrastructure of the Net; and PeaceKeeper, the largest virtual security provider. There are some competitors, but each of these corporations exert a dominance on the market approaching a monopoly.

However, for all the power and wealth of the corporations and political structure, advances in security of data (including corporate and political secrets) have not been strong enough to keep out the better hackers, whether unaffiliated activists, or international spies. As a result, a global political organization, The Unified Net Assembly, made up of Net Ambassadors from participating countries (to include practically every world country), has developed proposals for a 'safer Net,' which is another name for regulations. The landmark Net-Safety Proposal of 2069 required that all persons participating in the Net must make themselves immediately and easily identifiable, by way of their actual and full name. Obscuring one's name by way of some anonymity script is considered a serious felony and grounds for a minimum ten-year prison sentence. This caused a massive uproar, and was answered with significant and persistent attacks on political and corporate structures alike. Nevertheless, it was ratified worldwide on January 1, 2070, and the imprisonments began almost immediately. Nine years on, the attacks still have not diminished.

The story begins in December 2079, as the ten-year anniversary of the ratification of the proposal approaches. There is a general sense in society that something drastic will happen, but only the participants know what's coming.]]>
The genre is cyberpunk. The environment is St. Petersburg, Russia in the year 2079. Life is divided into two worlds: the Waking World, of train schedules and hunger and orgasm and rain; and the Net, of glitz and glamour and freedom. In 2052, a Chinese scientist developed a neural mechanism for projecting a user into the internet as a virtual world. This neural implant, while by no means ubiquitous, has come to be as common a device as a mobile phone, and only the thoroughly impoverished lack the docking mechanism (typically a reclined chair) required to 'jack into' the net.

To save costs, everything but the small handful of jobs that actually require physical interaction (medicine, specialized construction and manufacturing that hasn't yet been solved by robotics, prostitution) are handled entirely by jacking into the Net and wiring into a virtual office environment. A few corporations reacted to the changing business landscape faster than others, and grew exponentially more powerful: AkiraTech, specializing in robotic prosthetics and neural implants; Delphi, specializing in expanding and developing the virtual infrastructure of the Net; and PeaceKeeper, the largest virtual security provider. There are some competitors, but each of these corporations exert a dominance on the market approaching a monopoly.

However, for all the power and wealth of the corporations and political structure, advances in security of data (including corporate and political secrets) have not been strong enough to keep out the better hackers, whether unaffiliated activists, or international spies. As a result, a global political organization, The Unified Net Assembly, made up of Net Ambassadors from participating countries (to include practically every world country), has developed proposals for a 'safer Net,' which is another name for regulations. The landmark Net-Safety Proposal of 2069 required that all persons participating in the Net must make themselves immediately and easily identifiable, by way of their actual and full name. Obscuring one's name by way of some anonymity script is considered a serious felony and grounds for a minimum ten-year prison sentence. This caused a massive uproar, and was answered with significant and persistent attacks on political and corporate structures alike. Nevertheless, it was ratified worldwide on January 1, 2070, and the imprisonments began almost immediately. Nine years on, the attacks still have not diminished.

The story begins in December 2079, as the ten-year anniversary of the ratification of the proposal approaches. There is a general sense in society that something drastic will happen, but only the participants know what's coming.]]>