The Sprawl
A colloquial name for the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (BAMA), a massive urban environment encompassing most of the eastern seaboard of the United States. It has been enclosed in several geodesic domes, maintaining its own climate with no real day/night cycle, and an artificial sky which is always grey. Although there are well secured regions of wealth within the Sprawl, a vast majority of inhabitants struggle to survive from day to day. However, advanced technology is ubiquitous and available to all, regardless of financial standing.
The Matrix
“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,” says the voice-over, “in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.” On the Sony, a two-dimensional space war fades behind a forest of mathematically generated ferns, demonstrating the spatial possibilities of logarithmic spirals; cold blue military footage burned through, lab animals wired into test systems, helmets feeding into fire control circuits of tanks and warplanes. “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…”
Simstim
If the cyberspace matrix is actually a drastic simplification of the human sensorium, at least in presentation, then Simstim is a gratuitous multiplication of flesh input. Full sensory simulation of another person, total passivity. Simstim programs are broadcasted live through celebrities for the enjoyment of millions of participants daily. The commercial stuff is edited of course, so if Tally Isham gets a headache in the middle of a segment, you won’t feel it.
Black Clinics
The Japanese have already forgotten more neurosurgery than the Chinese have ever known. The black clinics of Chiba are the cutting edge, whole bodies of technique supplanted monthly. The average human lifespan for the top 1% of income earners is one hundred and forty-six; the rich take yearly pilgrimages to Chiba where genetic surgeons reset the code of their DNA. Of course, human cloning is the prefered method of the ultra-rich to secure their hegemony, as long as they have to funds to leave the planet for places where such procedures are not yet outlawed.
Maas Biotech
Hosaka Corporation
Operation Screaming Fist
WWIII
Biochip
Microsofts
A colloquial name for the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (BAMA), a massive urban environment encompassing most of the eastern seaboard of the United States. It has been enclosed in several geodesic domes, maintaining its own climate with no real day/night cycle, and an artificial sky which is always grey. Although there are well secured regions of wealth within the Sprawl, a vast majority of inhabitants struggle to survive from day to day. However, advanced technology is ubiquitous and available to all, regardless of financial standing.
The Matrix
“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,” says the voice-over, “in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.” On the Sony, a two-dimensional space war fades behind a forest of mathematically generated ferns, demonstrating the spatial possibilities of logarithmic spirals; cold blue military footage burned through, lab animals wired into test systems, helmets feeding into fire control circuits of tanks and warplanes. “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…”
Simstim
If the cyberspace matrix is actually a drastic simplification of the human sensorium, at least in presentation, then Simstim is a gratuitous multiplication of flesh input. Full sensory simulation of another person, total passivity. Simstim programs are broadcasted live through celebrities for the enjoyment of millions of participants daily. The commercial stuff is edited of course, so if Tally Isham gets a headache in the middle of a segment, you won’t feel it.
Black Clinics
The Japanese have already forgotten more neurosurgery than the Chinese have ever known. The black clinics of Chiba are the cutting edge, whole bodies of technique supplanted monthly. The average human lifespan for the top 1% of income earners is one hundred and forty-six; the rich take yearly pilgrimages to Chiba where genetic surgeons reset the code of their DNA. Of course, human cloning is the prefered method of the ultra-rich to secure their hegemony, as long as they have to funds to leave the planet for places where such procedures are not yet outlawed.
Maas Biotech
Hosaka Corporation
Operation Screaming Fist
WWIII
Biochip
Microsofts