[K5pbem] My Thoughts On Restarting the K5 PBEM

[Logan Darklighter]

Michael Surbrook wrote:

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> On Nov 22, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Logan Darklighter wrote:
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>> Time for the introduction of Nanotechnology perhaps?
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> Nanotech exists -- that's how they make replicated lifeforms. In  
> fact, organic lifeform replication is how they dispose of sewage.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- BLEAGH!!!! That's just a 
disturbing mental image. Not that I dissaprove. It fits the world.

Yeah, I knew nanotech was involved in many manufacturing processes 
Actually, what I meant was more introduction of Nanotech into everyday 
life, or introducing new ways to use it. Self-repairing 
cyborgs/droids/Boomers anyone?

For a pretty dark example - Nanotech in foods? In Ex Machina, in one of 
their scenario/world settings called "Underworld 9", one of the corps 
produces a Cola drink called Nan-O. Which the corp actually _advertise_ 
having nanomachines in the drink! The nanos supposedly circulate through 
the body, cleaing clogged arteries, boosting the immune system, and 
adjusting neurotransmitter and hormone levels to reduce migranes and 
other complaints. And incidentally, the drink also creates an extremely 
hard addiction for it, which the corp _doesn't_ advertise. Even worse, 
the user's immune system becomes dependent on Nan-O. After a few months 
of drinking it, you'd go into withdrawal trying to quit it, and your 
body would be so weakened without it, that you might not survive the 
process.

Just on possibility among many. They don't have to be all bad. But this 
is a dystopia, and negative examples are easier to come by in the 
literature.

-Logan