A bit of a blanket statement, and I go in aware that I might miss horribly, but I've been watching a bit of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex recently and been thinking. We get a lot of the "high technology", such as capsule, pod, implants, so forth. But what I would like to see more of is living and domestic technology, stuff our characters talk about IC. It might be something Gallente/Caldari are used to (in terms of social distribution), but as capsuleers, we all have homogenized standards.
In this episode, a company takes genes from clients and splices them into pigs, growing them organs via this 'natural' method. If the client has an organ failure, it's taken from the pig. There's also stuff with androids (something mysteriously absent from RP), entire prosthetic bodies, cyberbrains, and so forth. In fact, the main method of how the characters communicate remotely in Ghost in the Shell is almost via a telepathy, but is actually just implant plugged into a neural network; sort of how I imagine capsuleers communicating when they go out and about.
I might be looking in the wrong areas of RP, and it might be that syndrome where since there's no "avatar play" in EVE, we're not given enough scope to imagine such things (outside of ship tech). There was an interesting discussion I drummed up in the Summit (at least I felt it was interesting), about android/gynoid maids in a hotel Seriphyn was staying at, and clients attempting to sexually harass/assault said droids would find themselves in an armlock and subdued for "unbecoming behaviour towards hotel property". I think we associate 'drones' immediately with the space kind, so that might be why we don't see them imagined in RP.
It's right in articles like
caretaker drones...
Caretaker drones are, at their core, relatively simple devices. Most take a vaguely humanoid shape, with two arms, a torso, and a head with a “face”. Some have legs for locomotion, but many use treads or antigravity lifts for more efficient movement. Earlier drones were decidedly non-human and possessed a variety of forms; typically this meant several spider-like appendages and clusters of probes. However, these drones were found to be highly distressing, especially to children and patients with dementia, and were replaced with the more-familiar humanoid drones common today. These older drones still see some use as assistants to human nurses and in poverty-stricken areas where newer models cannot be afforded.
And
AI...
Entertainment
AI performers, similar in construction to the Aura AI, have gained popularity in recent years, particularly in the Federation. AI musicians create inoffensive songs for mass consumption, with appearances designed to appeal to specific demographics, particularly teenagers. Virtual actors and actresses have starred in blockbuster holovids, with a certain subsection of the populace preferring them to flesh-and-blood performers.
Sort of tangentialized there, but rather than me assuming such ideas aren't used, what sort of domestic/lifestyle technology do you use in your roleplaying, or are apart of your character?
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