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<p>Created page with &#39;<a href="/index.php/Category:Technology" title="Category:Technology">Category:Technology</a> These are cybernetic implants that alter the way a person perceives or thinks. They are tiny – usually pill-sized or smaller. They can be safely implant…&#39;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Technology]]<br /> These are cybernetic implants that alter the<br /> way a person perceives or thinks. They are tiny –<br /> usually pill-sized or smaller. They can be safely<br /> implanted or removed by robotic microsurgeons<br /> in a few hours. Removal is slightly trickier, as<br /> activation of an implant involves weaving a network<br /> of nanocommunicators and nano-optical threads<br /> through the brain.<br /> <br /> About half a billion people have brain implants,<br /> mostly in the Fifth Wave cultures. Laws usually<br /> require minors to have parental permission before getting<br /> brain implants.<br /> <br /> ==Implant Communicator==<br /> A radio communicator buried in the head. It can send<br /> and receive subvocalizations or, if the user also has a virtual<br /> interface, digital data.<br /> <br /> ==Virtual Interface Implant==<br /> This is the commonest brain implant, with functionality<br /> akin to a standard wearable virtual interface, providing<br /> personal computing and augmented reality. It<br /> translates brain activity into digital signals that can be<br /> transmitted via a microcommunicator, allowing mental<br /> control of a computer or other electronic device with similar<br /> precision to someone using a mouse, keyboard, or<br /> voice input device. While it permits commands to be<br /> entered “with the speed of thought,” that’s about the same<br /> speed as a good typist. Devices do not need exotic equipment<br /> to be run through a neural interface – any microcommunicator-<br /> equipped computer or dedicated computer<br /> is usable.<br /> <br /> As with other virtual interfaces, it normally houses<br /> an infomorph. Most people prefer to share their heads<br /> with nonsapient or at most, low-sapient AIs, but it’s quite<br /> possible for a high-end implant to run a sapient AI or even<br /> a mind emulation of another person. In some circles, it’s<br /> common to have an implant hosting a shadow of a current<br /> or lost love, close friend, parent, mentor, or guru. The<br /> Pope and Dalai Lama both reacted with horror to suggestions<br /> they be brainscanned so that every one of the faithful<br /> could have their own spiritual advisor, but other<br /> spiritual figures have been less conservative, resulting in<br /> so-called xox cults.<br /> <br /> ==Slinks==<br /> “Upslink” implants translate the user’s sensory experiences,<br /> including subvocalized thought, into compressed<br /> digital data (“sensory link experience”). This can be<br /> transmitted through microcommunicators or implant<br /> communicators in real time to someone with a sensory<br /> downlink, or recorded on digital media. An upslink could<br /> also store data in the computer contained within a virtual<br /> interface. Upslinks may be built so slink output is controlled<br /> by the user (active upslink) or by someone else<br /> (remote upslink); the latter are most often used to<br /> monitor convicts or study animal behavior.<br /> <br /> “Downslink” implants allow someone to<br /> experience slink input, either prerecorded or<br /> live. Two people who both possess upslink and<br /> downslink implants can experience a form of<br /> telepathy; a downslinker can read the surface<br /> thoughts of an upslinker he is in contact with. Downslinks<br /> also allow supervisors to “snoop” on what subordinates<br /> with remote upslinks are thinking and doing, although<br /> privacy laws usually ban this, at least with humans.<br /> <br /> It’s possible for a single upslink feed to be retransmitted<br /> to multiple, even millions of downslinkers. Such<br /> feeds also offer the ultimate form of virtual reality entertainment,<br /> although mainstream shows such as news are<br /> usually delayed by 1 or 2 seconds, passing through a<br /> downslink editor who makes a snap decision to delete<br /> anything unpleasant or embarrassing.<br /> <br /> Slink recordings can be edited, and<br /> such “slinky” media, usually accessed via the<br /> Web, is big business, especially for things like porn,<br /> cooking, sports, or real or scripted dramas where you<br /> “live the experience.”<br /> <br /> Downslink implants are very common (with over<br /> 100 million currently in use); Fifth Wave teens beg their<br /> parents for them. Upslinks are usually limited to specific<br /> occupations.<br /> <br /> ==Exotic Implants==<br /> Implant interfaces, implant communicators,<br /> upslinks, and downslinks are all socially acceptable, limited<br /> only by their expense and the reluctance of healthy<br /> people to undergo brain surgery. More exotic implants are<br /> used for psychiatry and mind control. The most sophisticated<br /> are puppet implants, which allow one mind to control<br /> another’s body. A puppet implant can allow remote<br /> control of a person, but this is difficult due to bandwidth<br /> limits. Puppet implants are more effective if the controlling<br /> mind is right there – a puppeteer can be an AI integrated<br /> into a virtual interface implant.<br /> <br /> Implants are capable of synergistic effects. For<br /> example, a person might voluntarily accept a puppet<br /> implant that is accessible to multiple AIs (or shadows)<br /> running on a virtual interface computer implant in his<br /> brain. If the AIs are under the host’s control, this allows<br /> him to effectively switch his body between different “personalities”<br /> optimized for specific situations.</div>

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