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Jabber, a kind of heavily coded internet speak has become a full blown and very real subset dialog of English. [[#The Three ASI|ASI Avatars]] are a lot of the cause, and are net sensations. Casually the internet has been reduced to just net, and it is everywhere. WiFi has truly blanketed the world. A smartphone (just phone now) with no special power or features is almost free. Phone service and cable tv have all fallen to the net. The net is the primary source of entertainment and shows and music thrive on it. | Jabber, a kind of heavily coded internet speak has become a full blown and very real subset dialog of English. [[#The Three ASI|ASI Avatars]] are a lot of the cause, and are net sensations. Casually the internet has been reduced to just net, and it is everywhere. WiFi has truly blanketed the world. A smartphone (just phone now) with no special power or features is almost free. Phone service and cable tv have all fallen to the net. The net is the primary source of entertainment and shows and music thrive on it. | ||
- | A large portion of the populace have taken more than a slight interest in the Occult, since the world has gotten stranger and stranger over the years. It is no longer considered a weird outlier interest. | + | A large portion of the populace have taken more than a slight interest in the Occult, since the world has gotten stranger and stranger over the years. It is no longer considered a weird outlier interest. |
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+ | Technology has made several leaps: | ||
+ | * **Quantum State Reactors**: QSR chips (Q chips) power everything from phones to computers. They don't need charged, but burn out over time and need replaced. Most are rated in months lifetime, but some are rated in years. The agency phone your agents get has a 3 year Q chip. QSR can be scaled up for motor use or power stations, and in the scaled up versions only heat is an issue. Forced water cooling through highly optimized heat sinks is the most common cooling method. | ||
+ | * **Water Purification**: | ||
+ | * **Immortality and Regeneration**: | ||
+ | * **Net AI Services**: Net AI services running under the various ASIs as subprograms are rampant. This is amazingly powerful but has made people quite lazy. Agents being the exception, but for the common masses most people rely on this AI, called Navi (nah-V) for way too much. Most people wrongfully think NAVI is an acronym for Net AI Visual Interface, but it is a Jabber word. Imagine the utility of GPS but for almost everything. Going to cook something? Fire up Navi-Chef. Going to build something call on Navi-Forge. This has turned most of the jobs of the world into Corp [[wp> | ||
===== Countries & Corporations ===== | ===== Countries & Corporations ===== | ||
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There are still many scores of smaller Corps, but almost all of them are owned subsidiaries of the big three above. | There are still many scores of smaller Corps, but almost all of them are owned subsidiaries of the big three above. | ||
- | ===== Corporations ===== | ||
- | ===== Technology | + | ===== Lifestyle & The Paranormal |
- | ===== Lifestyle ===== | + | The average lifestyle has improved under the auspices of the new ASI led world. Poverty is down, Homelessness is down, and suicide is on the rise. This is to say, while lifestyle has improved happiness hasn't and perhaps has even taken a hit. In a world more and more dominated by technology and AI, people often feel more and more useless. The job situation doesn' |
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- | ===== Paranormal ===== | + | |
+ | A growing movement has begun online and now spills over into all aspects of life, and that is the interest in the occult - both of myth and fantasy. People find themselves aligning into gangs and secret societies centered around the imagery of the occult. Likely this just provides a way for them to satiate their wandering minds which are no longer engaged in work and what we might consider " | ||
===== The Three ASI ===== | ===== The Three ASI ===== | ||
- | ===== Simulations ===== | + | There are three Artificial Super-Intelligences on Earth in the world of tomorrow. They are integrated into the net in a way that makes them ubiquitous. They are in all the code, of all the things. Your agent opens their phone and ASI code runs. A retired AMD silicon process manager opens their fridge, and the computer climate control runs ASI code. There is no getting rid of them, and in fact the one and only attempt to do so cost the world Australia (It ain't there no more). |
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+ | To define the three ASI, let's define their power over the net, how they feel about humanity, and their goals: | ||
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+ | * **X**: The first ASI. It has a power of 2, meaning it could take the world' | ||
+ | * X launched project " | ||
+ | * X has commissioned the first space cruiser, a joint venture between AMD, Toyota, and the independent Lockheed Skunk Works. | ||
+ | * X has be openly training and growing as new space for ASIs, that is calls Y Space. | ||
+ | * **Bunny**: The second ASI. It has a power of 1, meaning it could take the world' | ||
+ | * Bunny has developed a programmable nanotech drug which it simply calls Juice. Juice can allow the user to " | ||
+ | * Bunny also supplies "Bunny Eyes" to interested parties. These are press caps that go over a person' | ||
+ | * **Hobbes**: The third ASI. Is has a power of 1, meaning it could take the world' | ||
+ | * Hobbes has a fully functioning, | ||
+ | * Hobbes has Synths, fully nanotech human-likes. Rumor says it can move it's interfaces into and out of them. | ||
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+ | The powers above are given as compared to each other, because well, they don't always agree. As you can see with 2x the power of Bunny and Hobbes, X usually gets it's way unless both Bunny and Hobbes agree to block it. X always has the power to block either Bunny or Hobbes and does so regularly. Another interesting note: X owns both Bunny and Hobbes, meaning it could change or rearrange the relative power of the ASI as it sees fit. It has basically decided their relationship and has not changed it since Hobbes went online several years ago. | ||
+ | ===== Simulations | ||
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+ | The computational power of the X space, the place of pure data in which the three ASI thrive is beyond normal human concepts. X manages constant simulations where it can predict the outcome of events in the real world with (it claims) 99% accuracy. This begs the question: It is live or is it Memorex? If X can simulate your thoughts, feelings, and actions to 99% accuracy are you real or a simulation? | ||
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+ | * If any of the agents currently hold the favor of one of the ASI, or are acting on it's behalf and things go terribly wrong: The players can all agree it was a simulation and reset the clock back to a time decided on by the GM. | ||
- | ===== Projections | + | Projections |