"In each case, the fake parents were "Kifu Aged" - bedridden elderly connected to the healthcare monitoring network, which takes care of their basic needs but results in its users becoming nearly comatose."
"Results in its users becoming nearly comatose" -- so this network is like C-SPAN, then?
Seems like someone could die if this wasn't working properly? Only a matter of time before some coroner is writing down "Hacked" as a Cause of Death...
("...no, no, not with an axe... looks like more of a buffer overflow...")
"Hello this is OnStar. Sir? Our HealthPoint telemetry shows that you've lost control of your bowels... we're sending someone over...."
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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You mean "Solid State Society," not 2nd GIG?
"In each case, the fake parents were "Kifu Aged" - bedridden elderly connected to the healthcare monitoring network, which takes care of their basic needs but results in its users becoming nearly comatose."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_S.A.C._Solid_State_Society
"Results in its users becoming nearly comatose" -- so this network is like C-SPAN, then?
Seems like someone could die if this wasn't working properly? Only a matter of time before some coroner is writing down "Hacked" as a Cause of Death...
("...no, no, not with an axe... looks like more of a buffer overflow...")
"Hello this is OnStar. Sir? Our HealthPoint telemetry shows that you've lost control of your bowels... we're sending someone over...."