02-03-2013, 09:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2013, 09:48 PM by Sigfried Hunin.)
Fuck, it jsut deleted my post. Ah well.
Anyways, the point of my post is that yes, the Net IS huge. It takes up a big part of life right now. It's where you work, where you play but there is still a world outside of it. There are a lot of older people who don't even have jacks.
I think I'm getting at the fact that this world is on the BRINK of the dystopian future you described. There are Net junkies who frequently die because they wanted to make the net have a sensory component, but it's not so common that everyone has done it (because it's an all or nothing thing. You either have the additional surgery or you don't). For most people, they have to get out of the net and go do things to have the full range of experience, and the risk is too high for them to get the additional implants.
People see us about to careen into this dark abyss of the net as "Stim-Netting" (I MADE A TERM UP, LOOK AT ME) becomes more common, but we haven't fallen into it yet. WE're not quite at the matrix level yet where we just never ever leave, but the threat is present.
One of the major conflicts for my story was going to be that live-action pro sports have declined so much that he might go broke, so it's not like everything is hunky-dorey, we're just not quite in a never-ending abyss of cyber-addiction. Yet.
EDIT: Oh, whoops, that's why I couldn't see it, it was on the second page. SORRY, DOUBLE POST KINDA.
Anyways, the point of my post is that yes, the Net IS huge. It takes up a big part of life right now. It's where you work, where you play but there is still a world outside of it. There are a lot of older people who don't even have jacks.
I think I'm getting at the fact that this world is on the BRINK of the dystopian future you described. There are Net junkies who frequently die because they wanted to make the net have a sensory component, but it's not so common that everyone has done it (because it's an all or nothing thing. You either have the additional surgery or you don't). For most people, they have to get out of the net and go do things to have the full range of experience, and the risk is too high for them to get the additional implants.
People see us about to careen into this dark abyss of the net as "Stim-Netting" (I MADE A TERM UP, LOOK AT ME) becomes more common, but we haven't fallen into it yet. WE're not quite at the matrix level yet where we just never ever leave, but the threat is present.
One of the major conflicts for my story was going to be that live-action pro sports have declined so much that he might go broke, so it's not like everything is hunky-dorey, we're just not quite in a never-ending abyss of cyber-addiction. Yet.
EDIT: Oh, whoops, that's why I couldn't see it, it was on the second page. SORRY, DOUBLE POST KINDA.
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