Comments on: Plastic and Chrome http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/07/09/plastic-and-chrome/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: Thomas http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/07/09/plastic-and-chrome/#comment-23114 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:28:39 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=12327#comment-23114

EMP Blast? Cute.

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]]> By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/07/09/plastic-and-chrome/#comment-22863 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:52:08 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=12327#comment-22863

@ cptacek:

Well, locally sure. But I’d assume the grid would be heavily distributed and decentralized. So it would have to be an apocalyptic scale EMP blast to blanket like most of the civilized world. Even today that would send us straight back to stone age and cause millions of deaths.

I mean, when was the last time you have experienced an EMP blast that ruined all your electronics? Personally I have seen them only in the movies, so I don’t think it would be such a huge issue.

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]]> By: cptacek http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/07/09/plastic-and-chrome/#comment-22851 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:54:13 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=12327#comment-22851

And then an EMP blast deletes everything and everyone dies?

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]]> By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/07/09/plastic-and-chrome/#comment-22612 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:15:46 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=12327#comment-22612

@ GermanPete:

Well, I guess I need to check out Eclipse Phase and Takeshi Kovacs novels now. :)

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]]> By: GermanPete http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/07/09/plastic-and-chrome/#comment-22598 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:56:54 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=12327#comment-22598

The update sounds pretty neat and feasible to me.
A bit like a mix of Eclipse Phase (crazy great transhumanism RPG where a lot of people exist only as virtual personae or in cheap synthetic bodies due to some rampant uncontrolled AIs) and what Richard Morgan described in his Takeshi Kovacs novels.

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