· 6 years ago · Oct 20, 2019, 07:50 AM
1In 2023, the first full fork of the Internet occurred. Two years later, there were thousands.
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3Gateway were built, translating one network's language into another. Gates are sinks of randomness. If you want a seed for a secure crypto key, just query the Russian gate's API for "tesla dashcams" and sample a pixel.
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5By the time that Tesla could own itself using a sidekicked autonomous corporation, America's network was back to being the the most reliable of the lot. This wasn't always the case, as the services which flourished there in the early days enticing users into their garden were eventually broken up into oversight agencies modeled around microservices. Network attacks and governemtn code created a division in the country and many users fled to other countries networks.
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7Then DEA stepped in and tore it all down. By then they were called the Speech and Drug Enforcement Association. Contrary to earlier fears, the SDEA's primary activity was to guard America's Internet from being exploited and used by other sovereign nations. They called the new Internet Network 1.
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91 is technically hosted off planet, in a constellation of geosynchronous satellites hovering 36 thousand klicks out from the surface. Downlinks, literally woven from via space elevator ribbon, allow for seamless transitions from low latency remote sense to full off-grid avatar mode, as long as you were within 100 miles of the border
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11Anyone connecting to 1 must be implanted with a chip. If you don't have a chip and are located inside the US, you are technically considered to be an enemy of the state. The only problem with catching you (and your 10 million other friends) is it's not worth the cost. They'd rather wait until you did something more serious before picking you up.
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13Good luck with that, given in-person crime became non-existent.
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15Cars could no longer be stolen or driven. Fiat currency ceased to be a thing. Cameras were everywhere. Most drugs could be sytheszized at home in your kitchen, as could any type of sensory experience be synthesized in situ. Murder was still technically possible, but nobody bothered because you could more easily kill a synth (and all his friends) on 1 than you could trying to find bullet casings without tracers in real life.